Hiranyagarbha

According to Hindu religion, Hiranyagarbha, meaning the golden womb, is the source of the creation of the universe. In Vedic scriptures, it is the origin and creation of both the cosmos and the universe. Hymns state that Hiranyagarbha floated around in water in the emptiness and the darkness of the non-existence for about a year, and then broke into two halves which formed the Swarga and the Prithvi, and most likely other parts of the universe. Like many other texts within Hindu scripture, this account is interpreted to serve as an analogy to a greater truth. It is believed that Brahma was born from the Hiranyagarbha.
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[Hindu] The Vedic god of creation; the Hindu primordial being. He was the primeval seed from which Brahma was born.

Hiranyagarbha (Sanskrit) [from hiranya imperishable substance, golden + garbha womb, embryo, fetus, also the interior of anything, hence a temple] Golden egg or womb; the matrix of imperishable substance. "The luminous 'fire mist' or ethereal stuff from which the Universe was formed" (TG 142); applied to Brahma, described in the Rig-Veda as born from a golden egg formed out of the seed deposited in the waters when they were produced as the first vikaras of the Self-existent; according to Manu (1:9) this seed became a golden egg, resplendent as the sun, in which the self-existent Brahman while remaining transcendent in its higher parts, evolved into Brahma the Creator, who is therefore regarded as a manifestation of the Self-existent. Having continued a year in the egg, Brahma divided it into two parts by his mere thought, and with these two he formed the heavens and the earth; and in the middle he placed the sky, the eight regions, and the eternal abode of the waters.
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