Devalok

Stories 2

All kinds Origin Legend Local story Folk tale From the epics Festival story Temple legend In stone and bronze How a tradition frames it
Everywhere Pan-India 240 South India 81 West India 37 East India 37 North India 28 The Himalaya 17 Northeast India 8 Southeast Asia 6 Central India 5 Sri Lanka 1
✕ grief cursesacrificedevotionpridebooncreationdisguisemarriagetestbirthsupremacybargaindeathfirehealingpenancerescuepilgrimagerivercraftfestivaldancegiftrivalryearthemanationfriendshipnightdesirefear
Origin · 4 tellings · contested

Diti's vow and the birth of the Maruts

Diti's sons are killed by the gods.

Diti, Kashyapa, Indra, The Maruts

East India Pan-India

Origin · 2 tellings · contested

Yami's grief and the making of night

Yami cannot stop mourning Yama because there is only day; the gods create night so that a morrow can come.

Yami, Yama

Pan-India