1).

Again: "In the beginning there was only _brahma_; this (neuter) knew _[=a]tm[=a] ...
brahma_ was the one and only ...

it created" (1.4.

10-11); followed immediately by "he created" (12).

And after this, in 17, one is brought back to "in the beginning there was only _[=a]tm[=a]_; he desired 'let me have a wife.'" In 2.3.1 ff.