There was no death there, nor Immortality:
No sun was there, dividing day from night.
Then was there only THAT, resting within itself.
Apart from it, there was not anything.
At first within the darkness veiled in darkness,
Chaos unknowable, the All lay hid.
Till straitway from the formless void made manifest
By the great power of heat was born the germ.[18]
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The Great Unknown was by the later Vedic poets referred to by the interrogative pronoun “What?” (Ka).