In Hinduism, Purusha is the "self" which pervades the universe. "In the beginning only the Purusha existed. He was as wide as a man and a woman embracing, and divided in two, from which came the husband and the wife." Brhadaranyaka Upanishad The images of this creature show "him" to have been another version of the Primal Androgyne, male and female in the same body, the right side male and the left side female according to the classic gender division. |
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