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Pūṣan, Lord of the Paths: The Gruel-Eating God Who May Be Greek Pan's Cousin
Pūṣan is the Rigveda's god of roads, lost cattle, weddings and the road of the dead. A toothless herdsman who rides a goat-cart and eats porridge, he also sits at the centre of one of comparative mythology's oldest and most stubborn puzzles: is he a cousin of the Greek god Pan?
The Impeller's Verse: How a Stanza to Savitṛ Became the Gāyatrī
The most recited verse in Hinduism began as an ordinary stanza to a second-rank god. The story of how RV 3.62.10 became the Gāyatrī is a study in how meter, deity, and goddess collapsed into one another.