There was not much that I could find when doing the research for this blog post. So this may be shorter than the other ones that have already been published. The sources I manage to find were more focused on the hero of the story than the bad guy. The two main characters of this story are Indra and Vritra.
Indra is compared to the Greek god Zesus and the Norse god Odin the terms of being referred as the king of the gods. He is the god of thunderbolts and is a warrior that defeats asuras. Asuras are anti-gods which I thought of as gods that have evil intentions. Indra’s most famous defeat is of Vritra.
Vritra is asuras and his anatomy and physical aspects are snake-like. He caused droughts because he would hoard rains, rivers, and in general all of the water. In order to defeat Vritra Indra was powered by soma which gives the drinker immortality. He broke Vritra’s jaw in two fully killing the asura.
When learning about these two figures in Indian mythology I kept thinking about the similarities between them and the story I talked about in my Norse blog post. Both the heroes of the story are gods related to thunder and the villains are related to water. The villains are serpent-like and are defeated by the gods. It makes me think about how many other mythology tales could be similar.
Links to the sources that were used:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Indra#ref942544
