Vedic Mythology c4.s1.13

c4.s1.13

The All-god appears as a creator in the AV. under the new names of Skambha, Support, Prāṇa⁹, the personified breath of life (AV. 11, 4), Rohita, as a name of the sun, Kāma, Desire, and various others¹⁰. The most notable cosmogonic myth of the Brāhmaṇas describes the raising of the submerged earth by a boar, which in post-Vedic mythology developed into an Avatār of Viṣṇu.¹¹