Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s1.t6.13

v2.c10.s1.t6.13

In the Vedic period, people often contemplated and tried to answer the question that how the world and human life were created and as a result, creation myths were produced. The *Rigveda*, one of the oldest sacred texts, has several kinds of creation myths. One kind was based on fertility cult. For instance, the hymns *Visvakarman* (10.82), *Ka* (10.121) and *Creation* (10.129) allude to sexual intercourse between man and woman, indicating that primitive people worshipped genitals as the source of life and thought the world, like man and