Cycles of Creation
There are multiple Hindu myths of Creation; the oldest are linked to an act of incest between father and daughter, who directly or indirectly produce all other living beings.
In a later myth, the god Brahma, through his union with his daughter Vak (The Word), creates the first man, Manu.
Brahma is responsible for each kalpa, or 4,320 million years of the creation of the world. Each kalpa is a day and a night of Brahma; during the day, Brahma creates the universe, but during the night, chaos returns.
At night, Vishnu sleeps upon the serpent Ananta, in the cosmic ocean. At dawn, a lotus-shaped world grows from his navel, in which Brahma dwells, and who in turn creates the world anew.