cosmogonical

As a result of these conflicting sacerdotal ambitions, Egypt devel - oped divergent and mutually inconsistent cosmogonical schemes rather than a single unified view.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

Let us ask the astronomers who originate cosmogonical hypotheses, and invent a primitive nebula, the natural philosophers who dream that by the deterioration of energy and the dissipation of movement the material world will obtain final rest in the inertia of a homogeneous equilibrium, let us ask the biologists and psychologists who are enemies of fixed species and inquisitive about ancestral history.

A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912

Their cosmogonical connexion has already been referred to in a previous chapter.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

Heaven-deaf (T'ien-lung) and Earth-dumb (Ti-ya), the two attendants of Wên Ch'ang, the God of Literature (see following chapter), have also been drawn into the cosmogonical net.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

They have to be noticed in passing, because they were involved in the development of the cosmogonical ideas which took place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D. Monism

Myths and Legends of China 1909

The ordinary mind would seem to have been either indifferent to or satisfied with the abstruse cosmogonical and cosmological theories of the early sages for at least a thousand years.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

All this was mixed up with most complicated cosmogonical myths.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

Philosophers held it to be the result of undue proportions in the mixture of the two cosmogonical principles which when properly blended produce the harmony of nature.

Religions of Ancient China Herbert Allen Giles 1890

Shuh Hiang would illustrate it with an ode, or with a reference to the "Book" (of history), or by an appeal to the Rites of Chou, or to some obscure astrological or cosmogonical development extracted from the mystic diagrams of "The Changes."

Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

He had accomplished the creation not by muscular effort to which the rest of the cosmogonical gods primarily owed their birth, but by means of formulas, or even of the voice alone,

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881