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Legend · 3 tellings · contested
The falcon brings Soma from heaven
Soma is kept in the highest heaven; a falcon carries it down to men while the archer Krishanu shoots at him. Later texts make the bird the Gayatri metre, then Garuda.
Legend · 3 tellings · contested
Vac leaves the gods: the waters, the trees, the lioness
Speech walks out on the gods, hides in the waters and the trees, and on another occasion becomes a lioness.