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        "text": "translated by"
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        "text": "1. THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it."
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        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-129:3",
        "text": "What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?"
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        "n": 4,
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        "text": "2. Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider."
      },{
        "n": 5,
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        "text": "That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever."
      },{
        "n": 6,
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        "text": "3. Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminate chaos."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-129:7",
        "text": "All that existed then was void and formless: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-129:8",
        "text": "4. Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit."
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        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-129:9",
        "text": "Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-129:10",
        "text": "5. Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it?"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-129:11",
        "text": "There were begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-129:12",
        "text": "6. Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-129:13",
        "text": "The Gods are later than this world's production. Who knows then whence it first came into being?"
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        "n": 14,
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        "text": "7. He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it,"
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        "n": 15,
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        "text": "Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not."
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