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Identifier: indianmythlegend00inmack Title: Indian myth and legend Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Mackenzie, Donald Alexander, 1873-1936 Subjects: Hindu mythology Publisher: London, Gresham Contributing Library: Indiana University Digitizing Sponsor: Indiana University
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Text Appearing After Image: Ow s wH <: 1/3< -J H YAMA, THE KING OF THE DEAD 41 and came nearer to monotheism than the cult of anyother god in paganism .^ Professor Moulton wonders if the Yama myth owedanything to Babylon? It is possible that the wor-shippers of Agni represented early Iranian beliefs, andthat the worshippers of Mitra, Varuna, and the twins(Yama and Yima and the twin Aswins) were influencedby Babylonian mythology as a result of contact, and thatthese opposing sects were rivals in India in early Vedictimes. In one of the hymns Yami is the wooer of herbrother Yama. She declares that they were at the be-ginning intended by the gods to be husband and wife,but Yama replies: Who has sure knowledge of that earliest day? Who hasseen it with his eyes and can tell of it? Lofty is the law ofMitra and Varuna; how canst thou dare to speak as a temptress? Arnolds translation. In the Vedic land of the fathers , the shining Para-dise, the two kings Varuna and Yama sit below a tree.Yama, a fo
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