Hanuman
c. 200 BCE – 2026 CEattested
the Gangetic plain
- Hindu
Monkey god of strength and devotion, who leapt to Lanka, carried back a whole mountain because he could not identify the herb, and is said to have forgotten his own powers until reminded.
Known for
- carrying the whole mountain
- strength forgotten until named
- devotion as a form of power
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.