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In Egyptian mythology, bees grew from the tears of the sun god Ra when they landed on the desert sand. There Egyptian gods that associate with insects like Selket Khepri and Neith The bowstring on Hindu love god Kamadeva's bow is made of honeybees. The Baganda people of Uganda hold the legend of Kintu, the first man on earth. Save for his cow ...
Gajasura is an elephant demon killed by Shiva, in his Gajasurasamhara form. Gajendra the elephant, was rescued by Vishnu from the clutches of Huhu, the Crocodile in the legend of Gajendra Moksha. Ganesha also known as Ganapati and Vinayaka, the elephant headed God. Iravati is a daughter of Kadru and Kasyapa.
Bhramari ( Sanskrit: भ्रामरी, romanized :Bhrāmarī, lit. 'like a bee') is the Hindu goddess of bees. She is an incarnation of the goddess Adi Shakti in Shaktism, [2] [3] and is primarily regarded to be a form of Lakshmi in the Pancharatra texts, [4] [5] but is also regarded to be a form of Parvati in Shaivism. [6]
In mythology found in Indian, ancient Near East and Aegean cultures, the bee was believed to be the sacred insect that bridged the natural world to the underworld. European mythology. Greek mythology has several gods who are associated with bees. Aristaeus is the god of beekeeping.
Pages in category "Mythological insects" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Insects in mythology; A. Adze (folklore) Ah-Muzen-Cab; B ...
Naraka ( Sanskrit: नरक ), also called Yamaloka, is the Hindu equivalent of Hell, where sinners are tormented after death. [1] It is also the abode of Yama, the god of Death. It is described as located in the south of the universe and beneath the earth. The number and names of hells, as well as the type of sinners sent to a particular hell ...
Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana,) the Puranas, and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and Divya Prabandham, and ...
The Vaitarani (Sanskrit: वैतरणी, romanized: Vaitaraṇī), also called the Vaitarana, is a mythological river in Indian religions. Described in the Garuda Purana and various other Hindu religious texts, the Vaitarani lies between the Earth and the infernal Naraka, the realm of Yama, the Hindu god of death. It is believed to be ...