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Rohita
The Red One, the rising sun praised as creator and king in the thirteenth book of the Atharvaveda; his female counterpart is Rohini.
Sources: Hymns of the Atharva-Veda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1895); Vedic Mythology, A. A. Macdonell (1897) · see Rohita's web