purusha

He supplied the protoplasm of the Tinnehs, as Purusha did that of the Aryan world, out of his own body.

The Purusha Sukta is the type of many other Indian myths of creation, of which the following one is extremely noteworthy.

The two greatest sacrifices were the purusha-medha, the human sacrifice, and aswa-medha, the sacrifice of the horse.

From the myth of the chaos-giant Purusha we pass to the higher pantheistic conception of Brahmă, the soul of the Universe.

In Indian mythology Purusha, the chaos giant, first divided himself.