Cosmogonic [adjective]

With such shifting, grotesque and inadequate fables, the cosmogonic myths of the world are necessarily bewildered and perplexed.

Perhaps the cosmogonic myths of the less cultivated races have now been stated in sufficient number.

Both strata of belief are represented in the surviving cosmogonic myths of the Aztecs.

The authorities for Greek cosmogonic myth are extremely various in date, character and value.

To Hesiod, then, we must turn for what is the earliest complete literary form of the Greek cosmogonic myth.

This term curiously reminds one of Ginnunga-gap in the Scandinavian cosmogonic legends.

The gods whom the cosmogonic myths portray differ from those who protect and direct human life.

This is a cosmogonic myth whose essential elements belong to the same circle of ideas as the cosmogony of the Greeks.

In form, however, cosmogonic myths strive towards the gigantic, and thus lie far above the level of the mrchen-myth.

But there is also other evidence that cosmogonic myths are of the nature of mrchen, magnified into the immense and superhuman.