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
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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

Legend · 3 tellings · contested

The three black bricks of Nirriti

The gods build the first hearth, climb it and see only impenetrable darkness.

Nirriti

Pan-India