Varuna
c. 1500 BCE – 2026 CEattested
the Punjab
- Vedic
Guardian of ṛta, the cosmic order, who sees every lie and binds oath-breakers with disease. He outranks Indra in the oldest layers and then quietly loses ground until he is only a sea god.
Known for
- keeper of cosmic order
- the noose for oath-breakers
- a high god demoted over time
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.