Trita · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

Trita, a minor Vedic deity connected mythically to the sacrificial horse.

Given by Yama, Trita harnessed him;

you are Trita by your secret ordinance;

Now I shall praise the food — great, law-sustaining, vigorous — by whose strength Trita crushed the many-jointed Vṛtra with force.

Mythological figure onto whom the gods transfer sin (the daidhiṣavya evil deed), who in turn passes it on to humankind.

The gods wiped this [sin] away onto Trita;

Whatever share of the evil dream belongs to thee, O Trita — that same do we here dispatch unto thee.

Trita wiped it off upon human beings;