Cult of Gods

Ushas

Hindu tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
dawn
Vishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.
Vishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.

Key myth

One of the most beautifully praised Vedic deities: a young woman who opens the doors of the day. She has almost no role in later worship.

Primary sources

  • Rigveda 1.113, 7.77-81

All sources for the Hindu pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

Dyaus PitarPrithviIndraAgniVarunaSuryaYamaUshasVishnuLakshmiShivaParvatiSaraswatiGaneshaKartikeyaDurgaKrishna

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Ushas: the sun and light. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian

Atum

creator, the completed one

Egyptian

Ra

sun, kingship, order

Celtic (Irish)

Lugh

skill in all arts, kingship, the sun (in later readings)

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