hindu creation story
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A Hindu Creation Story: Rig Veda
Most ancient culture's creation stories follow the same basic format. One or two gods or goddesses come out of nowhere and decide to create the earth, as we know it today. For the Egyptian's there was Ra, the Hebrews had God, and the Japanese had both Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto. The Hindu creation story, however, differs from the rest. While Ra, God, Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto were responsible for the act of creating, the Hindu's god was the matter in which the world was created from. He was sacrificed and from his body came earth and the heavens.
Before the sacrifice of Purusha, ancient Hindus believed, "even nothingness was not, nor existence." This idea closely resembles the Hebrew idea of creation as cited in Genesis, "and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." In most creation stories, the world was blank before the creator made humans into existence. Perhaps this is because people who lived in these ancient civilizations used creation stories as an explanation for what they could not understand...