Surprisingly honest scripture

I don't know all the stories that different religions have, to explain how this universe was created.

The one in the bible is probably most widely known. It's pretty neat and tidy - God created the different elements one after the other in a week. Whether this is to be taken literally or metaphorically, who knows? (I hope no one takes it literally). Islam probably attributes everything to Allah. Have to read up about other religions but I wouldn't be surprised if some Supreme being is given credit.

So it was refreshing to see at least one scripture admit that they don't really know how all of this started and who, if anybody, created it. This scripture is the Rig Ved. Specifically, the hymn of creation in Book 10.

What pisses me off is that very few Hindus seem to be aware of this. Throughout my childhood and teen years, the pujas and rituals were mostly about the different Gods and their stories. They're fun and good for moral values (and bad when they try to inculcate a fear of God in kids). But reading this particular part of the scriptures really makes me want to read more -

From the translation by Ralph T.H. Griffith

1. THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.
What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?
2 Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider.
That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
3 Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos.
All that existed then was void and form less: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit.
4 Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit.
Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent.
5 Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it?
There were begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder
6 Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation?
The Gods are later than this world's production. Who knows then whence it first came into being?
7 He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it,
Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.

The last part about how the Gods were created after the creation and that perhaps even the one who seemingly controls everything doesn't know where all this came from, is really brutally honest.

I like that a religion has the guts to admit 'I don't know'. It also feels good to know your ancestors had a spirit of curiosity.