Heaven and Earth
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 8 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Heaven and Earth the deity · Heaven and Earth the place
both Heaven and Earth
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The divine pair Heaven and Earth (Dyāvāpṛthivī), invoked jointly across several hymns as protectors and as cosmic totality.
Heaven stirs forth, earth stirs forth, the mid-space stirs forth, each into its own realm.
Neither heaven nor earth nor Aditi nor the wealth-winning power is theirs.
May both Heaven and Earth protect us from distress.
Rigveda
The paired cosmic deities Heaven and Earth, referenced across several hymns.
Whose greatness in exaltation these two great worlds, Heaven and Earth, have not encompassed — come with your beloved tawny horses yoked, O Indra, to your home, toward the beloved food.
He who fashioned all the worlds with forms—him, these two parents Heaven and Earth—worship here today, O Hotṛ, sent and most fit to sacrifice, knowing it—the god Tvaṣṭṛ.
Heaven and Earth, of one mind with all the gods, assisted his energy.