The story of creation is a vast and controversial topic that crosses between both the immense similarities and differences of religion and science. Science and religion have to agree that creation happened. My task is to explain how the Hebrew story as it is written in Genesis and the story that’s told in the Nasadiya Sukta also known as the Hymn of Creation in the Rigveda compare. Primarily, the most fundamental questions that arise are; How did everything come into being, where did it all start, why did it happen, the way it happened, and who is responsible for such beautiful chaos?
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”[1] From the start the Hebrew bible proclaims an omniscient type presence as taking sole responsibilities for…show more content… “Not the non-existent existed, nor did the existent exist then"[6] followed by, "then not death existed, nor the immortal."[6] The story states that there wasn’t some form of creator or god, but instead they questioned, “After all, who knows, and who can say, whence it all came, and how creation happened?”[6] Then it continues to ask, “the gods themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence it has arisen?”[6] And lastly the statement, “he, who surveys it all from the highest heaven, he knows – or maybe even he does not know.”[6] Still the question arises, everything had to come from something or somewhere didn’t it? The hymn states, in the third and fourth verse, of a “One” that was born from the power of heat and the “primal seed” was born from the mind. It is my interpretation that the “One” is the overseer, a godly type figure, and that all creation sprouted from the “primal seed.” Overall, according to the Nasadiya Sukta, it can’t be explained where everything came from, how it all came to be, or a “who” is ultimately responsible. Or we may never know, even after
