hen was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where and what gave shelter?
Then was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.
What covered in, and where and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?
Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day’s and night’s divider.
That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos.
All that existed then was void and formless: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit.
Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning — Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit.
Sages who searched with their heart’s thought discovered the existent’s kinship in the non-existent.
Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it?
There were begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder.
Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation?
The Gods are later than this world’s production. Who knows then whence it first came into being?
He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.
According to “The Creation Hymn,” which of the following gave rise to life after the physical universe had been created?
A. The Devil
B. Desire
C. The gods
D. Death
Which of the following correctly characterizes the period before the creation of the universe in “The Creation Hymn?”
A. It was dark and chaotic.
B. It was a time of peaceful bliss.
C. There was a vast area of sky and sea.
D. There was an empty void.
How does the hymn deal with certainty about the origins of the universe?
A. It argues that if people only trust the gods enough, they can be certain about the origins of the universe.
B. It claims that only the wisest sages will know the origins of the universe.
C. It argues that the gods created the universe to be unknowable.
D. It points out that some questions about the origins of the universe can never be answered.
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