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finds him to be in the Br[=a]hmanas. In one hymn only (x. 121) is Praj[=a]pati found as the personal Father-god and All-god. At a time when philosophy created the one Universal Male Person, the popular religion, keeping pace, as far as it could, with philosophy, invented the more anthropomorphized, more human, Father-god—whose name is ultimately interpreted as an interrogation, God Who? This trait lasts from now on through all speculation. The philosopher conceived of a first source. The vulgar made it a personal god.
One of the most remarkable hymns of this epoch is that on V[=a]c, Speech, or The Word. Weber has sought in this the prototype of the Logos doctrine (below). The Word, V[=a]c (feminine) is introduced as speaking (x. 125):
I wander with the Rudras, with the Vasus, [33] with the (=A]dityas, and with all the gods; I support Mitra, Va[r]una, Indra-Agni, and the twin Açvins ... I give wealth to him that gives sacrifice, to him that presses the soma. I am the queen, the best of those worthy of sacrifice ... The gods have put me in many places ... I am that through which one eats, breathes, sees, and hears ... Him that love I make strong, to be a priest, a seer, a wise man. 'Tis I bend Rudra's bow to hit the unbeliever; I prepare war for the people; I am entered into heaven and earth. I beget the father of this (all) on the height; my place is in the waters, the sea; thence I extend myself among all creatures and touch heaven with my crown. Even I blow like the wind, encompassing all creatures. Above heaven and above earth, so great am I grown in majesty.
This is almost Vedantic pantheism with the Vishnuite doctrine of special grace included.