Chapter 552: Vedic Gods of the Vedic Age

The name of the god of death Yama [Hades] is Yamaraja, also known as Yama, Yama, Yama, Yama King, Yama, Yama, Yama, Yama, and Yama. He is the god who controls death and judges the dead.

Around 2000 BC, when the Aryan branch of the Vedic people who worshipped the god of thunder came to the Persian Plateau with the god of thunder Dahaka [Zeus Indra], the god of fire Apaosha [Poseidon Agni], and the god of plague Mana [Hades Yama], this god already existed in Persian mythology.

After the Vedic people entered the Indus Plain, they began to implement the rudiments of the caste system here.

In order to make the Dravidians accept the rule of the caste system, Brahmanism created the concept of reincarnation, so that the Dravidians believed that after death, they would enter the underworld, and the lord of the underworld, Yama, would reward and punish them according to their behavior in their lifetime.

As long as you endure the suffering silently, you can get the preferential treatment of Yama after death, and even reincarnate into a high caste.

In the early Vedic period, Yama [Hades] was still a kind god of death, not a scary god. He would treat the dead as guests and have a banquet with them.

As the Aryans completely dominated the Indian region, the Brahmans who lived at the highest level of the entire society, in order to consolidate the caste system and ruling status and warn people not to commit crimes, portrayed Yama from a kind lord of the dead to the king of the dead and all the gods of death, that is, the ruler of hell, with many subordinates.

Yama also became a terrifying god who would torture the unworthy dead with various tortures.

This practice made people fear the god Yama, and with the eastward spread of Buddhist and ancient Brahmanic culture, Yama became the lord of the underworld of Shenzhou continent, King Yama.

The water god Varuna was one of the five most important gods in the Vedic period.

In the early Vedic period, when the Aryans had just entered India and needed to compromise with local ethnic groups, the water god Varuna was the ruler of the heavens and became Indra-Varuna with Indra.

As the Aryans became more and more powerful in India, the authority of Varuna, as a local god, continued to decline, and eventually became a simple water god.

The evolution of the water god Varuna is enough to prove that he was not an Aryan god brought by the Vedic people.

In contrast to the continuous weakening of the water god Varuna, the Aryan wine god Soma [Dionysus] continued to grow stronger in the Vedic period.

Soma was originally the name of a creeping grass. Its stems were soaked in water and then squeezed with stones to extract yellow juice. After fermentation, it can be brewed into Soma wine.

In Indian mythology, the immortal nectar that makes the gods immortal and causes the gods and Asuras to wage war for it is actually Soma wine.

In Indian mythology, the king of gods, Indra, was addicted to drinking Soma. After drinking a huge amount of Soma, his body became huge and filled the two worlds.

The rise of this drinking culture gave the god of wine Soma [Dionysus] an important position in the Vedic era. He not only obtained the status of the moon god, but also married Ushas, ​​the sister of the sun god Surya.

In later Indian mythology, the moon god Soma married the 27 daughters of the birth master Daksha - 27 constellations, so the moon god Soma was also the lord of the stars.

Because the moon god Soma took away the wife of Indra's mentor, the celestial being, a war of gods broke out between the gods supporting Indra and the gods supporting the moon god Soma.

In Greek mythology, the god of wine Dionysus was raised by goddesses in India.

Perhaps the corresponding reality is that the god of wine Soma, who has the same origin as Dionysus, became a great god in India.

In Indian mythology, the god of wine Soma married Ushas, ​​the sister of the sun god Surya.

Dionysus, the god of wine in Greek mythology, also married Ariadne, the goddess of the sun god family.

In real history, the Aryans who worshipped the god of thunder were defeated, expelled, and even conquered by the Aryans who worshipped the sun god.

Although the Vedic people, a branch of the Aryans who worshipped the god of thunder, could not retaliate against the Aryans who worshipped the sun god in reality, they could still make up stories that humiliated the sun god in mythology - this kind of self-deception could still be done.

So in the Vedic era, the sun god Surya and his sister, the goddess of dawn Ushas, ​​had myths that were obviously degraded and humiliated.

In the Indian mythology of the Vedic era, Surya did not become a god after he was born.

Moreover, he was extremely ugly, had no hands or feet, and his body width was equal to his height, and he could roll like a ball.

The gods cut off the excess flesh on his body and transformed him into a mortal.

Surya became the ancestor of mankind. He was the first person on earth to offer sacrifices, and he was also the one who gave fire to mankind.

Nezha was born as a ball of flesh, and was split into pieces by Li Jing to become a human being - perhaps this is derived from the birth myth of Surya.

Coincidentally, Nezha is also a mythological figure related to fire, and can spit out Samadhi fire from his mouth.

The myth of the sun god Surya is very similar to Prometheus in Greek mythology.

Prometheus is the ancestor of mankind in Greek mythology, and he is also the one who taught mankind to sacrifice, and he also gave fire to mankind.

In real history, Prometheus is the Dorian god Heron who conquered the Mycenaeans [Zeus].

Because the Dorians [Heron] conquered the Mycenaeans [Zeus], ​​Heron became the ancestor of mankind in Greek mythology, taught mankind to sacrifice, brought mankind fire, and was eventually punished by Zeus and became a prisoner of the Caucasus Mountains.

Because the Aryans who worshipped the sun god defeated the Aryans who worshipped the thunder god, the Vedic people who worshipped the thunder god Indra [Zeus] made up a myth that the sun god became the ancestor of mankind, the first person to offer sacrifices, and gave fire to mankind.

In the Indian and Greek regions, the Mycenaeans who worshipped the thunder god and the Vedic people humiliated the hostile gods in exactly the same way.

Prometheus [Heron] eventually became a prisoner of Zeus in the myth because the Dorians could only live in a corner of the Peloponnese Peninsula.

The status of the sun god Surya in Indian mythology was improved because the Aryans who worshipped the sun god entered the Indian region, which reminded the Aryans and Vedic people who worshipped the thunder god of the fear of being dominated by the sun god.

Ushas, ​​the goddess of dawn, is the most beautiful goddess in Indian mythology. She always maintains the image of a girl and appears in the image of a graceful dancer riding a chariot.

Her duty is to open the door of the sky to usher in the dawn, spread the light of hope and drive away the darkness.

Dancer——

Just from the image of Ushas, ​​we can see that she and Surya, the sun god, were both gods created by the Vedic people who worshipped the god of thunder with the mentality of revenge against their mortal enemy, the sun god.

When the Aryans who worshipped the sun god dominated the Indian region, the status of the dawn goddess Ushas in Brahmanism rose and she became one of the most worshipped goddesses.

Indra [Zeus], ​​the god of thunder, Agni [Poseidon], the god of fire, Yama [Hades], the god of death, Soma [Dionysus], the god of wine and moon, Varuna, the god of water, Surya, the sun god, Ushas, ​​the goddess of dawn——these are the Vedic gods of the Vedic era.

Except for Yama, the god of death who controls the underworld, and Varuna, the indigenous god of water, all the Vedic gods are sky gods.