The golden egg
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golden egg · the egg · the golden egg
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Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
The cosmic golden egg, formed from the seed cast into the primordial waters, within which Brahmā is born and the gross cosmic body develops.
] "That [seed] became a golden egg, radiant as the sun of a thousand rays;
within water, tenfold-multiplied, earth arises—and that very [earth] is the seed of the gross body.
Manusmṛti
The luminous cosmic egg formed from the divine seed cast into the waters, in which Brahma is born and which is later split to form the world.
That seed became a golden egg, in splendor like the thousand-rayed sun;
After dwelling in that egg for a full year, that divine Lord, by his own contemplation, split the egg in two.