Puruṣa (English spelling)

Japanese: Puruṣa(英語表記)Purusa
Puruṣa (English spelling)

...There are theories that the chief deity Brahmanaspati (Brihaspati) or Visvakarman (Visvakarma) is the creator of all things, and that the creator god emerged as a golden fetus (Hiraṇya-garbha) conceived in the primeval waters of the primordial age. There is also a theory, common to the myths of the dismemberment of giants found among various peoples, that the gods performed a ritual using the original man Puruṣa, who is everything itself, as a sacrificial animal to create various worlds. In the hymn to "not being and not being" in the Rig-Veda (10:129), the theory of the creation of the universe takes on the color of profound philosophical thought.

*Some of the glossaries that mention "Puruṣa" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…祈禱主神ブラフマナスパティ(ブリハスパティ)とかビシュバカルマン(毘首羯磨)を万物の創造者とする説や,創造神が黄金の胎児(ヒラニヤ・ガルバHiraṇya‐garbha)として太初の原水の中にはらまれて出現したとする説がある。また,神々が万有そのものである原人プルシャPuruṣaを犠牲獣として祭祀を実行し,もろもろの世界を形成したという,諸民族の間に見られる巨人解体神話と共通な説もある。《リグ・ベーダ》(10:129)にある〈無に非ず有に非ざるもの〉を説く賛歌において,宇宙創造説は深遠な哲学的思索の色彩を帯びる。…

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