The author seems to be trying to achieve the effect of time all being one moment. The effect of this hits the reader in full force in the end when it goes back to Garuda, who was last mentioned in the first chapter reading the Rg Veda, waking up from a light doze on the word ‘Ka’. The reader is left in awe at the possibility that that simple sounding syllable ‘Ka’ could contain in it, the whole mythology; that one moment could be aeons and aeons of events and growth and decay of a world.
Multiple versions of the origin of the world are also given. In the second chapter we see it as starting from Prajapati. How he himself existed only because his mind desired so. But at several later points in this chapter one begins to think that now that he has created, he will die: