Rigveda

The earliest layers of the Rigveda and the Mahabharata are said to hold fragments of an axis-tilt and cosmic freezing event, said to have happened in deep antiquity, before the present world order.

Source: Rigveda, Book 10, Hymn 129 (circa 1500–1200 BCE, translated).

The Rigveda is a collection of hymns, most of it likely composed in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent between about 1500 and 1000 BCE.

Griffith's Rigveda 10.79 shows Agni eating fuel, not piercing stone.

The passage they cite runs "With the divine spark, the implement draws forth the essence of the stone, such that it disperses as mist" (Sayana's commentary on Rigveda, Mandala 10, unchecked).

For the hymns themselves, see The Rigveda Samhita, and for the flying craft of the same literature, Vimanas.

The sounds and texts of the Rigveda have been orally transmitted since the 2nd millennium BCE

The Rigveda is one of the oldest known religious texts and a foundational scripture of Hinduism.

Composed in ancient Sanskrit, the Rigveda is a collection of hymns or "suktas" dedicated to various deities and natural phenomena.

The Rigveda consists of 1,028 hymns and about 10,600 verses divided into ten books called "mandalas." The hymns praise a pantheon of gods and goddesses, including Indra, Agni, Varuna, and others, reflecting the religious, social, and philosophical ideas of early Vedic civilization.

Women in the Rigveda appear disproportionately as speakers in dialogue hymns, both as mythical or divine Indrani, Apsaras Urvasi, or Yami, as well as Apāla Ātreyī (RV 8.91), Godhā (RV 10.134.6), Ghoṣā Kākṣīvatī (RV 10.39.40), Romaśā (RV 1.126.7), Lopāmudrā (RV 1.179.1–2), Viśvavārā Ātreyī (RV 5.28), Śacī Paulomī (RV 10.159), Śaśvatī Āṅgirasī (RV 8.1.34).

The women of the Rigveda are quite outspoken and appear more sexually confident than men, in the text.

The Rigveda’s Nasadiya hymn (10.129) questions the state before existence and non-existence.