The Rigveda names Dyaus Pita and Prithvi as the primordial sky-earth couple who gave birth to Agni, placing his origin among the fundamental cosmic forces.
The Vedic earth goddess Prithvi, celebrated in the Prithvi Sukta as the broad and bountiful ground beneath all beings, evolved into the Puranic Bhudevi who became Vishnu's earthly consort and the mother of Narakasura and Sita.
Shesha bears Prithvi upon one of his thousand hoods, dwelling beneath all worlds in Patala, his coils the foundation upon which creation rests.
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