Agni
c. 1500 BCE – 2026 CEattested
the Punjab
- Vedic
Fire, and specifically the fire that carries an offering upward, which makes him the messenger every Vedic sacrifice runs through. The Rigveda opens with him, before any other god is named.
Known for
- the mouth that eats offerings
- messenger between earth and sky
- the first word of the Rigveda
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.