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Hindu Ideas of Creation

In Our Time: Religion

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The Second Version of Creation

In the beginning, there is this darkness. The lord then manifests himself into the egg and becomes brahma, the creator god. After one year, he says, separates the egg in two, so that into the sky and earth, and in between becomesthe directions. And now, having done that, it says, all the forms of creation, from human beings to to lice and mice and and rats as well. It echoes the prusha sucta that we've had earlier, that a society comes out of the great out of his body. He practised asceticism for a long time. Then out of him came manu. Manu is the author of

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