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The Bridge
Narayan's Ramayana
Image: Rama and Vanar chiefs. Source: Wikipedia
vanar:
- a group of people living in forests
- help Rama defeat Ravana
- these are strictly mythological creatures
- they are shape shifters
Identification of vanar:
- derives from the word "vana" meaning forest and nara (man) meaning "belonging to the forest" or "forest-dwelling"
- derives from vana (forest) and nara (man) meaning "forest man"
- derives from the words vav and nara meaning "is it a man"" or "perhaps he is man"
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The God of Ocean: Varuna
- found in the oldest layer of Vedic Literature of Hinduism
- in the Hindu Puranas, he is the god of oceans
- he has a vehicle of a Makara, which is a part fish, part land creature
- weapon is a Pasha, a noose, rope loop
- guardian of deity of western direction
- found in Japanese Buddhist mythology as Suiten
- The theonym Varuṇa is a derivation from the verbal vṛ ("to surround, to cover" or "to restrain, bind") by means of a suffigal -uṇa-, for an interpretation of the name as "he who covers or binds",
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