The passages are flowery but fitting for an eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun's "magic arts to vanish." When you ...

The Rig Veda is the collection of ancient Indian Vedic Sanskrit hymns. Of all the tales and anecdotes mentioned in the holy Rig Veda, there is one early mention of the divine dog-like deity, known as ...

The Rigveda's inaugural mantra honors Agni, the divine fire, symbolizing light, transformation, and the human-divine connection. Agni, crucial in Vedic life, served as a messenger and purifier. Beyond ...

A flowery passage in a 6,000-year-old Hindu text may be the earliest known reference to a solar eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings ...