#nasadiya-hymn

¶ Before the Axial Age: the Nāsadīya hymn, Egyptian instructions and the gradualist objection

One of the first hymns my grandfather made me memorise was the Nāsadīya Sūkta of the Ṛgveda, the hymn of creation. It begins before being and non-being and ends with doubt: who truly knows how this arose? Perhaps the one who watches…