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The lacunose & somewhat corrupt paTala 83 of the Ur-brahmayAmala preserves a shaiva origin mythology as the action of kapAlIsha-bhairava, the primary deity of the system. It posits the pIlupAka hypothesis with shiva’s sweat as atomic bonds for the origin of the universe.

The mass of atoms of the parthiva element did not bond together. Having generated sweat by yoga [I] had them bonded together, O pretty-faced one.

Having made this [bonded mass] in my palm, I then churned it with Śakti (c.f. Manthana-bhairava: the churning Bhairava). By my looking at it, it became extremely hot brought together with my gaze.

Indeed, by that energy it was “cooked” and became a dense golden [mass]. It blazed forth in the midst of my palm with the light of a crore suns.

With the three guna-s as its triple foundation [it became] the abode of the world-guardian deities. [It became] the abode of the 14 families [of beings], the receptacle of their experience and liberation.

Verily, Brahman, born of sattva, fell into that mass through gravity. In the enclosure [in genesis?] he is verily the first to be made, [appearing] in intelligence and who is individuality.

He is verily the cause of beings, and the manifester of discernments (i.e., agency). Then, O goddess, through the union of sattva and tamas, a second [emerged].

[he emerged] from both as the embodiment of rajas (Viṣņu), generated by intent of the primal cause. For carrying out preservation, he entered into that [world]-egg.

Each as per their own nature [became] demiurges incited by tamas. They were impelled, O goddess, by me, via tamas for the sake of creation.