Myths do a great job of marrying the verbal and visual in our imagination.
I found this one in a dictionary of myth describing Kasyapa from Indian mythology. (ref: Myths and Legends of the world, Kenneth Mcleish)Kasyapa was husband to the 13 daughters of Daksha (also believed to be the 13 months of the lunar calendar) and father to every living creature according to Mcleish's classification.
In some myths, Kasyapa is husband of Diti, father of the Daityas that include Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu and the 49 Maruts.
In Sanskrit, Kasyapa also means tortoise and is sometimes depicted as time creeping across the sky.
It must have been quite a fascinating journey for the mythmakers to convert concept to word and word to image or was it the other way around?
Art: Mekhala Singhal
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