For wife he has the spirit of the clouds and waters, Apsaras, and by her became father of the first mortals, Yama and Yami.

YAMA (Sanskrit "twin," in allusion to his being twin with his sister Yami, traditionally the first human pair), in Hindu mythology, judge of men and king of the unseen world.

ii.), the first man and the founder of civilization to the Iranians, though not like the Yama of the Vedas.

In the Brahmana period they were distinguished as " deva " and " yama," the fourteen lucky asterisms being probably associated with the waxing, the fourteen unlucky with the waning moon.'

In India Yama, the god of Death, is assumed, like Maui, to have been the first to "spy out the path to the other world."

33), called later Caphar Yama, the present village Yemma, 8 m.

True, Yama, first of men to enter the world beyond, became the " King of Righteousness " before whose tribunal the dead must appear.

Azhi; known moreover as Vr~ra): also, the legend of Yama, the first man, son of Vivasvant, who, after a long and blessed life in the happy years of the beginning, was seized by death and now rules in the kingdom of the departed.

He is the Yama of an Aht paradise, or home of the dead, where " everything is beautiful and abundant."

In the Atharva Veda, Yama, like Maui in New Zealand, first " spied out the path to the other world," which all men after him have taken.

14), Yama " sought out a road for many."

It is he, King Yama, who, following the course of the great rivers, first reconnoitered a path for many.

For wife he has the spirit of the clouds and waters, Apsaras, and by her became father of the first mortals, Yama and Yami.

YAMA (Sanskrit "twin," in allusion to his being twin with his sister Yami, traditionally the first human pair), in Hindu mythology, judge of men and king of the unseen world.

ii.), the first man and the founder of civilization to the Iranians, though not like the Yama of the Vedas.

In the Brahmana period they were distinguished as " deva " and " yama," the fourteen lucky asterisms being probably associated with the waxing, the fourteen unlucky with the waning moon.'

In India Yama, the god of Death, is assumed, like Maui, to have been the first to "spy out the path to the other world."

33), called later Caphar Yama, the present village Yemma, 8 m.

True, Yama, first of men to enter the world beyond, became the " King of Righteousness " before whose tribunal the dead must appear.

Azhi; known moreover as Vr~ra): also, the legend of Yama, the first man, son of Vivasvant, who, after a long and blessed life in the happy years of the beginning, was seized by death and now rules in the kingdom of the departed.

He is the Yama of an Aht paradise, or home of the dead, where " everything is beautiful and abundant."

In the Atharva Veda, Yama, like Maui in New Zealand, first " spied out the path to the other world," which all men after him have taken.

14), Yama " sought out a road for many."

It is he, King Yama, who, following the course of the great rivers, first reconnoitered a path for many.