Durga
c. 400 CE – 2026 CEattested
Bengal
- Hindu
Warrior goddess assembled from the pooled rage of the gods to kill a buffalo demon no male god could touch. Bengal's autumn festival still ends by carrying her image to a river and letting it dissolve.
Known for
- made from the anger of every god
- the buffalo demon
- an image built to be dissolved
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.