Hello, my name is Purusha. It is almost impossible to describe who I am or why I am here, but what I can say is that I am everything that has ever existed and will ever exist. To be frank, I am a part of everyone and everything on earth. I cannot say when I came to be because I have always existed. Life came to this earth when I put on earth a measly Hiranyagarbha, or as it's spelled in English, golden egg. This egg is the purest form of me. I took a part of myself and was born into this egg. From this egg, came gods before anything else. Brahma, Indra, Agni, and many other gods came to be from this egg. Despite the egg's seemingly little importance, it is the beginning source of life on Earth. After all of the gods came to be, the gods and I began performing rituals on the egg bringing about life.
While life is the primary reason the Hiranyagarbha came to be, the rituals did not just bring life to Earth. Think about it; life has to have a sustainable environment to survive. The rituals brought about the sky, the seasons, and the very environments and ecosystems in which life thrives. The importance of these rituals cannot be understated because they brought about the very existence of life on this earth. Given the importance and quantity of the rituals, I may be downplaying the greatness of the Hiranyagarbha just a little. It's easy to say the Golden Egg is measly because of the sheer breadth of the Earth that it created, but truth be told, the Egg is much greater than I described previously. The large egg shined brightly all by itself bringing light to a dark Universe and remained bright until the last ritual was performed. Each ritual that the Gods and I performed took more and more of the egg. Because of that, I do not exist as strongly in everyone. Despite that, I am still a part of everyone and everything. I know that I am not the most humble cosmic being you may know of, but there is one thing that I know I am unable do. I cannot alter the course and fate of life on Earth.
Despite my great importance, I have a sheer inability to enact change or alter fate. Altering fate and causing change is a job for everyone and everything else. I may be a part of everyone and everything, but I cannot change what I have created. The rituals were performed, and now I have to watch as life unfolds on earth. Think of me a Watchmaker. I put life and gods on earth, but after all of that design and work, I cannot do anything with what I have created. I can try to act as if I do not care, but truth be told I do. Think about it, I care about me! I am a part of everything, and I want to see myself thrive. The destruction of earth and life on earth hurts me as well because it takes away part of my creation. Because I care, I have watched closely as fights with Gods and Demons shaped the earth. I have watched as mountains have been moved, and evil has won over good. I have watched as the greatest of kingdoms have risen and fallen. I have witnessed countless events shape history and life on earth, and now I will walk you through the most important events which events I have witnessed.
Author's Note:
The golden egg is a Hindu Creation myth which centers around how the Earth came to be. The egg brought life to Earth through rituals called Yajnas. A Yajna is a ritual performed in front of a sacred fire. There are devotions, sacrifices, and offerings involved in these rituals. The Gods and Purusha performed many Yajnas on the egg to create the Earth. According to the stories, Purusha lives in everything on earth. However, Purusha does not play an integral role in Hindu stories after the Earth's creation. Because of this, I am making Purusha a narrator and watchmaker for the remainder of the stories. A watchmaker is someone who designs and creates something, but is unable to change their creation after it is done. This will allow me to tell the stories from Purusha's point of view, and allow Purusha to provide his own insights and feelings into the stories. I am including The Golden Egg as a story itself because of its importance in the religion, and the backstory that the golden egg provides for the rest of the storybook. For the reminder of the storybook, I will be telling different stories that hold great importance in the Hindu religion from different eras of history.
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