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lists, who say that this Purdna, like the Skanda, is "no longer procurable
in a collective body," but "is represented by a variety of Khandas
and Mahatmyas professing to be derived from it." The Brah7nd7ida
Purdna is described as "that which has declared in 12,200 verses, the
magnificence of the %ZZ of Brahma, and in which an account of the
future Kalpas is contained, as revealed by Brahma."* Quite so, and
much more, perchance.
In the Scandinavian Cosmogony, placed by Professor Max Miiller, in
point of time, as "far anterior to the
the Song of the Prophetess, the Mundane Egg is
Vedas," in the poem of Woluspa,
again discovered in
the Phantom-Germ of the Universe, which is represented as lying in
the Ginnungagap, the Cup of Illusion, Maya, the Boundless and Void
Abyss.
In this World's Matrix, formerly a region of night and desolation,
Nefelheim, the Mist-Place, the nebular, as it is called now, in the
Astral L,ight, dropped a Ray of Cold Light which overflowed this cup
and froze in it. Then the Invisible blew a scorching Wind which dissolved
the frozen Waters and cleared the Mist. These Waters (Chaos),
called the Streams of Eliwagar, distilling in vivifying drops, fell down
and created the Earth and the Giant Ymir, who had only the "semblance
of man" (the Heavenly Man), and the Cow, Audumla (the
"Mother," Astral Light or Cosmic Soul), from whose udder flowed yj7z