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{{Short description|Theory or model concerning the origin of the universe}} {{hatnote group|{{for|the Björk song|Cosmogony (song)}}{{redirect|Cosmogenesis|the Obscura album|Cosmogenesis (album)}}}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} [[File:The Untangling of Chaos, or the Creation of the Four Elements LACMA 54.70.1a.jpg|thumb| The Creation of the Four Elements as published by Holland in 1589 from [[Ovid]]'s book: ''Metamorphoses'']] '''Cosmogony''' is any model concerning the origin of the [[cosmos]] or the [[universe]].<ref name="DicAstro2">{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2012 |title=A Dictionary of Astronomy |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |last=Ridpath |first=Ian}}</ref><ref name="CosmoToday2">{{Cite journal |last=Woolfson |first=Michael Mark |author-link=Michael Woolfson |year=1979 |title=Cosmogony Today |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=97–114 |bibcode=1979QJRAS..20...97W}}</ref><ref name="TU-201409172">{{Cite web |last=Staff |title=γίγνομαι – come into a new state of being |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=ge/gona&la=greek |access-date=17 September 2014 |website=[[Tufts University]]}}</ref>
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