Yama
c. 1500 BCE – 2026 CEattested
northern India
- Hindu
- Vedic
The first man to die, and therefore the one who rules the dead. He found the road and everyone else follows it. He travels east with Buddhism and turns up as a judge of hell in Tibet, China and Japan.
Known for
- the first to die becomes the king of the dead
- the road found by going first
- carried east with Buddhism
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.