Varunapurana 3.3

3.3

nirguṇatvaṃ khyāpayituṃ liṅgatvaṃ ca prakāśitum
devatāssakalā viprā mūrtirūpātmakāḥ smṛtāḥ

in order to make known his attributelessness and to manifest the nature of the liṅga. / All the deities, O twice-born, are remembered as possessing embodied forms;