According to the Hindus, In the Beginning...

Waters were the world at fi rst, the moving ocean; Prajapati, becoming wind, rocked about on a lotus leaf; [...]

Taittiriya Sanhita, v, 6.4.
(Keith, Arthur Berriedalle, The Veda of the Black Yajus School entitled Taittiriya Sanhita, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard University Press, 1914, v. 2, p. 458.)

This was in the beginning the waters, the ocean. In it Prajapati becoming the wind moved.

Taittiriya Sanhita, vii, 1.5.

(Keith, Arthur Berriedalle, The Veda of the Black Yajus School entitled Taittiriya Sanhita, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard University Press, 1914, v. 2, p. 560.)