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Stella Zhau, from the American animated series The Loud House. Stella, the ideal woman in the work of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland; Stella is the name of the Glinda analogue in The Wizard of the Emerald City series by Alexander Volkov; Stella, a female Galah in the Angry Birds series including the spin-off Angry Birds Stella
The Hindu pantheon is composed of deities that have developed their identities through both the scriptures of Hinduism as well as regional traditions that drew their legends from the faith. Some of the most popular deities of the Hindu pantheon include: Statue of Ganesha. Ganesha, also called Vinayaka and Ganapati, is a son of Shiva and Parvati ...
Panchakanya, a pre-1945 lithograph from Ravi Varma Press.. The Panchakanya (Sanskrit: पञ्चकन्या, romanized: Pañcakanyā, lit. 'Five maidens') is a group of five iconic women of the Hindu epics, extolled in a hymn and whose names are believed to dispel sin when recited.
The Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend (2002) is a book written by Anna L. Dallapiccola, and contains information on over one thousand concepts, characters, and places of Hindu mythology and Hinduism, one of the major religions of the Indian subcontinent.
People in Hindu mythology (6 C, 2 P) R. Characters in the Ramayana (7 C, ...
The kamandalu is used in Hindu iconography, in depiction of deities related with asceticism or water. It is, thus, viewed as a symbol of ascetism in Hinduism. [2] Adi Shankaracharya’s ashtotaram hymn praises Shiva whose hand is adorned with the kamandalu.
Hindu mythology is the body of myths [a] attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, [1] the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, [2]) the Puranas, [3] and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and Divya ...
Sampooranathevan and Paradevathai (Southern Hindu) Savitri and Satyavan ; Scylla and Glaucus ; Selene and Endymion ; Shiva and Parvati/Sati ; Sigurd and Brunhild ; Siyavash and Sudabeh ; The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl , representing Altair and Vega and commemorated by the annual Qixi Festival; Theseus and Ariadne