| A Vedic-Aryan tribal deity; the Hindu mythological counterpart to Yahweh of the Jews, Ashur of the Assyrians, Tarhun of the Hittites or the Olympian Zeus
(or, so says Joseph Campbell,
in The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion,
ISBN 0-06-055152-6).
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