Every god, every telling, every source
What we have gathered so far, laid out the way the traditions tell it: side by side, attributed, never ranked. Pick a god, a region, or a theme — or follow the lines between them.
The gods
All gods, avatars and forms →Shiva
The great god of the Shaiva traditions and one of the three of the Puranic Trimurti, where he is assigned…
Vishnu
Vishnu begins as a minor god of the Rigveda, addressed in only a handful of hymns and remembered for pacing…
Brahma
The creator of the Puranic triad, grandfather of the worlds, father of the mind-born sages and the giver of…
Krishna
Born in Kamsa's prison at Mathura and carried across the Yamuna to Gokul; the cowherd of Braj, the king of…
Rama
Prince of Ayodhya and hero of the Ramayana; born to Dasharatha and Kausalya on Chaitra shukla navami, exiled…
Parvati
Daughter of the mountain Himavat and Mena, the rebirth of Sati, who won Shiva as her husband by long…
Dattatreya
The son of the sage Atri and Anasuya in whom the natures of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are combined — the one…
Jagannath
The wooden lord of Puri, worshipped with Balabhadra and Subhadra, whose bodies are carved anew from chosen…
Venkateswara
Vishnu as the lord of the Venkata hill, the temple tradition's answer to why the god left Vaikuntha: after…
Mahadevi
The Great Goddess of the Shakta frame. In the Devi Mahatmya she is the sleep in which Vishnu lies and must…
Harihara
Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara) as one body split down the middle, the ascetic Shiva half on the right and the…
Kartikeya
The six-headed war-god born to slay Taraka, who could die only to Shiva's son. In the Mahabharata Shiva's…
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The lineage graph
Open the full graph →Who is whose parent, consort, avatar, rival or devotee — one line per relation, each with its tradition and the story that asserts it. Contradictions between traditions are kept, on purpose.
What is in the base
Coverage tracker →| Research topic | Entities | Stories | Relations | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| trimurti/brahma | 40 | 30 | 65 | 71 |
| trimurti/folk | 60 | 31 | 51 | 176 |
| trimurti/interactions | 43 | 21 | 126 | 83 |
| trimurti/shiva | 126 | 52 | 151 | 93 |
| trimurti/vishnu | 119 | 32 | 165 | 83 |