But guess-work philosophy then asks what upheld this god, and answers that a support upheld all things.

So Support becomes a god in his turn, and, since he must reach through time and space, this Support, Skambha, becomes the All-god also; and to him as to a great divinity the Atharvan sings some of its wildest strains.

When once speculation is set going in the Br[=a]hmanas, the result of its travel is to land its followers in intellectual chaos.[64] The gods create the Father-god in one passage, and in another the Father-god creates the gods.

The Father creates the waters, whence rises the golden egg.

But, again, the waters create the egg, and out of the egg is born the Father.