Hiraṇyagarbha
deity figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
god above the gods · the golden calf · the golden embryo
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The primeval creator deity who arose as sole lord of all existence, propped apart heaven and earth, and was born golden from the cosmic waters.
Golden was the birth-membrane of him who was born as the calf at the first.
The waters, generating the embryo, brought forth the calf at the first.
The waters that bear all life, the mothers who gave birth to the embryo — therein the god above the gods took his seat, within the one-pillared, measured, firm and mighty.
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
Cosmic figure whose intellect (buddhi) is identified with the 'great principle' (mahat) of Sāṃkhya cosmology.
by the word "great" (mahat) the {{buddhi / mahat|intellect}} of Hiraṇyagarbha is meant.