Who knows, and who can say Whence it all came, and how creation happened? The gods themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence it has arisen? Whence all creation had its origin, He, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, He, who surveys it all from highest heaven, He knows—or maybe even he does not know. – The Nasadiya Sukta (the Hymn of Creation)1 in the Rig Veda (10:129)
