"Cosmogonical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beautiful and deeply significant, but of which the mass of the people did not care to unravel the subtle intricacies, being quite content to accept it entire, in the most literal spirit, elementary nature-gods, astronomical abstractions, cosmogonical fables and all—questioning nothing, at peace in their mind and righteously self-conscious if they sacrificed at the various time-honored local shrines, and conformed to the prescribed forms and ceremonies. ...
— Chaldea - From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria • Znade A. Ragozin |
