Brewer's: Cosmiel

(3 syl.). The genius of the world. He gave Theodidactus a boat of asbestos, in which he sailed to the sun and planets. (Kircher: Ecstatic Journey to Heaven.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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