Kuber: The Deity of Wealth And Fortune Kubera, son of Illavira, is a known as God of Wealth and has his position in North direction. Due to his position in North, he is also known given the power of Lokpala (Guardian of Direction). Family Lord Kubera is a descendant from the family of Lord Brahma and is one of the children of Vishrava Illavida. Well, he is not the only child of his father, but and his father Vishrava Illavida and her stepmother Kaikesi have four children Ravan, Vibhishana, Kubhakarna, and Surpanakha too. So, it won’t be wrong saying that he is half-brother of the all four. Further, Kubera has his wife Kauberi and four children, namely Nalakubera, Mayuraja, Manigriva and Meenakshi. About The ionization of Kubera is done as …show more content…
But it is not so. God Kubera is known as the God of Wealth, whereas, Goddess Lakshmi is known for granting the Fortune. How Kubera became a God? Yes, you have the heading right. Kubera was not a god and he earned it; to support the same, you may find two mythological stories. So if you are not aware of any, then let me tell you the both. Well, the first story tells how he performed the toughest of all austerities and prayed Lord Brahma to earn the title. So, this story totally depicts earning the title of God as the award which he bragged by making the Lord Brahma happy by his determination and tough austerities. But, another story is a total contradiction to the first one. Here, they say that, Kubera once planned to rob a temple of Lord Shiva. So, with the planning he entered the temple and started working out on his plans, but, he had accidently blown his taper. Now, as Lord Shiva is divine and the supreme power, he was watching all without the knowledge of Kubera. With Kubera, he was in a difficult situation as he got his taper blown out and he was dwarf too. He did efforts and all that he could do and the efforts were so sincere that he got his taper lighted. Well, this was the turning point, which made Lord Shiva be happy of his efforts and devotion. He was so touched by his efforts that, he awarded him with the title of God, and accessed him into the pantheon of Hindu God &
While preparing to write this paper, I thought it would be great just to focus on the heroes of these two great epics many differences. Although during the course of my research I found that they also had just as many similarities. In this paper I will focus on the two characters by expressing their differences, as well as their similarities, and I will also give a bit of history about our two heroes.
tradition teaches that God is incomprensible and unknowable. The one God of the Israelis is the
To start, physical features and behaviours are crucial to the representations of gods and goddesses. When believers pray for material or emotional gain, they must have something to pray to - a statue or item that can represent the god or goddess to whom they sent their prayers. Humans made these statues, and gave the gods and goddesses that the statues represented human physical and emotional characteristics, in order to explain natural disasters or occurrences. For example, when the sea was rough or when a ship sailed into jagged rocks, the sailors would pray to Poseidon (Greek), Neptune (Roman), or whoever was in charge of the ocean in their religion, and think that the god of the oceans was unsatisfied or displeased with something or someone, thus wreaking havoc on the Earth. Divine beings conducted themselves in a royal fashion, them supposedly in charge of various necessities of life. They did as they wished, for they were immortal, the only restrictions being that they may be punished by the supreme god, which in Greek mythology, is Zeus. To prove, in the myth about the creation of the world's animals, humans were created in the image of the gods, but lacked survival capabilities. Therefore, a Titan named Prometheus stole fire from Mou...
The gods and goddesses were thought to control different parts of the universe. For example, Zeus is the king of the gods, controlled weather. Or like Athena who was the goddess of wisdom. You learn about different gods and goddesses in myths. A myth is a story about a god or goddess. Homer, a blind poet, is famous for telling myths. He told myths because no one could read or write.
Centuries ago, two books were written with similar and different ideas. The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Book of Job have different settings although they both discuss friendship, death and mortality, pain and suffering, and characters, but individually the book of Job examines where human beings stand in the world.
In most of the stories, the almighty God, goes through a trial of some sort to prove his strength. As said in Tablet VII, “Let them sound abroad the song of Marduk / How he defeated Tiamat and took kingship” (17-18). Marduk kills Tiamat and uses her body to create the world that we live in. This is also shown in Theogony, “He subdued his father, Kronos by might and for the gods / made a fair settlement and gave each his domain”(73-74) a text describing the triumph of the Gods of Olympus, lead by Zeus, over the titans. The only distinction being how they went on to create man after their glorious victory. After discovering who waged the war against him, Marduk punished the traitor by using his blood to create man. As mentioned in tablet VI “It was Qingu who made war / Suborned Tiamat and drew up for battle / They bound and held him before Ea / They imposed the punishment on him and shed his blood / From his blood he made humankind”(29-33). In a way man was his trophy. Their eternal praise and worship will forever serve as a
This paper is to show that Heracles is the prime example of a hero’s journey through his actions and the struggles that he faced during his life until he was about to die but instead of death, his father, Zeus, saved him and he conquered the mortal realm, to become a god.
love of God came first in his life. He was able to overcome the obstacles in his life and
human beings and the birth of gods and goddesses. Explanatory myths are those that try
Gilgamesh the king is a myth beholding various heroic traits shared in multiple other stories and myths for that fact. Towards the beginning of Gilgamesh’s myth, he chooses to conquer the beast of the jungle, Humbaba, and sets himself the goal to do so. Heroes must have a goal or else there is nothing for that hero to accomplish, and create a story of. However, once Gilgamesh accomplished his goal of defeating the terrifying Humbaba, he experiences a greater loss than the hero ever imagined possible, the loss of his best friend Enkidu. Although, once Gilgamesh realized what he had done was certainly the wrong choice of action, he devoted all of his time and effort into reviving his friend. On his journey for the search of eternal life, hero Gilgamesh essentially “descends into darkness” both mentally and literally while he enters the underworld to obtain his desire. Here Gilgamesh realizes that what he did was selfish and wrong, and that he is also not the only person who is of value in his life. Subsequent to Enkidu’s death, Gilgamesh becomes aware that his decision to murder Humbaba was once again wrong and resulted in his own depression and loss. Throughout the duration of a myth, the hero mu...
According to a Mayan source, a man named K’uk’ulkan, which means feathered serpent, come from the west and establish a capital at Chichen Itza. It is unknown if this story refers to the Toltec groups or the Itza groups, or if it just a myth. During 550 to 800 AD, the main purpose of the city was to make human sacrifices and magical ceremonies. Itzamná, the supreme God, was the most important deity; he was the creator god, the god of fire, and the god of the hearth. Other significant Gods included Chac, a hooked-nose god of rain and lightning, and Kukulcán, the Feathered Serpent, who resembles the man who established the city, K’uk’ulkan. These Gods appear on many temples and were later adopted by the Toltecs and Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl.
Their similar qualities are strange due to the fact that these two epics were written in such different cultures, time periods, and probably mindsets. The Epic of Gilgamesh tried to describe the Sumerian beliefs, as well as the Sumerian 's culture. It appears that they used fighting to find out the best among them in war and to see who was worthy to rule kingdom. For example, we can consider Enkidu and Gilgamesh’s first battle. Everything is viewed as a battle in this culture, and at the end of each journey is the key to more wisdom. Hinduism however is kind of same but in different ways. In Rama 's culture, to obtain wisdom and knowledge, one has to be patient and finish his sacred duty. However, people have to fulfill the sacred duty by not fighting or battling for power, rather through the moral behavior and virtue. “Hinduism is all about being humble and leading your life in a way that will make the after-life even greater. It is about being truthful to their dharma and letting things happen in its way” (Narayan 23). Both Rama and Gilgamesh are epic heroes to their own culture. Different lifestyles will show up with the encounter of different believes. It’s usual to find one god or hero in every culture that it worships for hope and guidance. Thus, their similar characteristics represent this common archetype of a hero that every culture looks
The god Shiva is linked with both the battle goddesses. According to the book Religions of the World, seventh edition, written by Lewis M. Hopfe, (class book) Shiva is the god of death destruction and disease. Kali is Shiva's consort. Kali excites and empowers Shiva. When Kali is in one of her blood frenzies, she entices Shiva to join. Kali and Shiva exchange the destructive energy that builds between each other. Kinsley writes, "…she entices Shiva himself to dangerous, destructive behavior." Durga is seen as Shiva's wife. Durga's effect on Shiva is like an energy sucking sedative. Instead of giving power to him, as Kali does, she drains the power from him making him relax.
... story never refers to a god, only to the Buddha, who is telling the story. The Hinduism story speaks of one god for each age as well as Brahma and Prthu.