THE CUCKOO, THE HERON, THE HEATHCOCK, THE PARTRIDGE, THE NIGHTINGALE, THE SWALLOW, THE SPARROW, AND
- Date of account
- English edition published 1872
- Source
- Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2)
- Reference
- Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) · selected passage 137
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-25
Record summary
The phallical Indras carries on his shoulders a mountain of wood, which evidently corresponds to the mandaras or kaça-pas, and, on the way, offends the dwarf hermits born of the hairs of the body of Brahman, that is, the hairs themselves; to this Kaçyapas, the name of Pragâpatis or lord of generation is given
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyThe phallical Indras carries on his shoulders a mountain of wood, which evidently corresponds to the mandaras or kaça-pas, and, on the way, offends the dwarf hermits born of the hairs of the body of Brahman, that is, the hairs themselves; to this Kaçyapas, the name of Pragâpatis or lord of generation is given. We here again meet with the monstrous phallos which produces the ambrosia (or the Somas to which corresponds Savitar, the generator and the lord of the creatures[508]) and generates living beings in the world. Kaçyapas being considered as the generator, he was therefore placed in relation with the movements of the moon and the sun, who are also generators (as Somas and Savitar); and it is in this respect that Kaçyapas also appears as the foecundator of the thirteen daughters of Dakshas, who correspond to the thirteen months of the lunar year (Dakshagâ is the name of a lunar asterism and of the wife of a phallical Çivas, and dakshagâpatis one of the Hindoo names given to the moon; Dakshas is also identified with Pragâpatis; whence Kaçyapas must have united himself, probably as the phallical moon, wit
Historical context
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Modern context
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