Atharva Veda 4.2

ya ātmadā baladā yasya viśva upāsate praśiṣaṃ yasya devāḥ yo 'syeśe dvipado yaś catuṣpadaḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

To the unknown god

He who is soul-giving, strength-giving; of whom all, of whom [even] the gods, wait upon the instruction; who is lord (īç) of these bipeds, who of quadrupeds—to what god may we pay worship (vidh) with oblation?

yaḥ prāṇato nimiṣato mahitvaiko rājā jagato babhūva yasya chāyāmṛtaṃ yasya mṛtyuḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

He who by his greatness became sole king of the breathing, winking animal creation (jágat); of whom immortality (amṛ́tam), of whom death [is] the shadow—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

yaṃ krandasī avataś caskabhāne bhiyasāne rodasī ahvayethām yasyāsau panthā rajaso vimānaḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

He whom the (two) spheres (krándasī) favor when fixed; whom the terrified firmaments (rodasī) called upon; whose is yon road, traverser of the welkin (rájas)—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

yasya dyaur urvī pṛthivī ca mahī yasyāda urv antarikṣam yasyāsau sūro vitato mahitvā kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

[By the greatness] of whom the wide heaven and the great earth, [by the greatness] of whom yon wide atmosphere, by the greatness of whom yon sun [is] extended—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

yasya viśve himavanto mahitvā samudre yasya rasām id āhuḥ imāś ca pradiśo yasya bāhū kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

Whose [are] all the snowy mountains by [his] greatness; whose, verily, they call Rasā in the ocean; and of whom these directions are the (two) arms—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

āpo agre viśvam āvan garbhaṃ dadhānā amṛtā ṛtajñāḥ yāsu devīṣv adhi deva āsīt kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

The waters in the beginning favored (av) the all, assuming an embryo, they the immortal, order-knowing ones, over whom, divine ones, the god was—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

hiraṇyagarbhaḥ sam avartatāgre bhūtasya jātaḥ patir eka āsīt sa dādhāra pṛthivīm uta dyāṃ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

The golden embryo was evolved (sam-vṛt) in the beginning; it was, when born, the sole lord of existence (bhūtá); it maintained earth and heaven—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?

āpo vatsaṃ janayantīr garbham agre sam airayan tasyota jāyamānasyolba āsīddhiraṇyayaḥ kasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema

The waters, generating a young (vatsá), set in motion (sam-īray) in the beginning an embryo; and of that, when born, the fœtal envelop (úlba) was of gold—to what god may we pay worship with oblation?