1), a personal creator, the old Father-god of the Br[=a]hmanas, Praj[=a]pati, made the elements proceed from the worlds he had 'brooded' over (or had done penance over, _abhyatapat_).

In 3.
19.

1, not-being was first; this became being (with the mundane egg, etc.).

In sharp contradiction (6.2.

1): 'being was the first thing, it willed,' etc., a conscious divinity, as is seen in _ib_.3.