Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
He is the twin brother of Yami, [26] brother of Shraddhadeva Manu and the step brother of Shani and his son was Katila. [27] There are several temples across India dedicated to Yama. [28] As per Vishnu Dharmottara, Yama is said to be represented on a buffalo, with garments like of heated gold, and all kinds of ornaments. He has four arms with ...
Yamuna is known as Yami in early texts, while in later literature, she is called Kalindi. In Hindu scriptures, she is the daughter of Surya , the sun god, and Sanjna , the cloud goddess. She is also the twin sister of Yama , god of death.
He is described as a son of Nereus, which constitutes a reversal of the relation between the deities bearing these names in Greek mythology. [188] Most likely due to mistaken quotation, either by Philo from his sources or by Eusebius from Philo, Pontos is also described both as a grandson and a contemporary of Zeus Belos . [ 188 ]
Yama, the Hindu god of death and Lord of Naraka (hell). He was subsequently adopted by Buddhist, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean, and Japanese mythology as the king of hell.. Yama (Devanagari: यम) is the Hindu deity of death, dharma, the south direction, and the underworld.
14th-century Chinese Yuan dynasty portrait of King Yama. One of a series of paintings of the "Ten Kings of Hell" by Lu Xinzhong. In East Asian and Buddhist mythology, Yama (Chinese: 閻魔/閻摩; pinyin: Yánmó; Wade–Giles: Yen-mo) or King Yan-lo/Yan-lo Wang (Chinese: 閻羅王; pinyin: Yánluó Wáng; Wade–Giles: Yen-lo Wang), also known as King Yan/Yan Wang (Chinese: 閻王; pinyin ...
Yama and Yami are born to Saranyu as mortal twins, while the Ashvins are born to her as divine twins in the form of horses. Doniger points out that the concept of twinhood extends beyond simple sibling relationships in Vedic mythology; it symbolizes duality, opposites, and complementary forces, with Yama representing death and the Ashvins ...
With regard to Japanese mythology, Yomi is generally taken by commentators to lie beneath the earth and is part of a triad of locations discussed in Kojiki: Takamahara (高天原, also: Takamagahara, lit. "high heavenly plane", located in the sky), Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni (葦原の中つ国, lit. "central land of reed plane") located on earth ...
Over time, the Avestan hero Yima Xšaēta became the world-ruling Shāh Jamshid of Persian legend and mythology. According to the Shāhnāma of the poet Firdausī, Jamshid was the fourth king of the world. He had command over all the angels and demons of the world, and was both king and high priest of Hormozd (middle Persian for Ahura Mazda ...