Pantheon South Asian traditions
Navagraha
navgraha sa नवग्रह hi நவக்கிரகம் ta
Group of 9 Astronomical Deities
- Members 9 on record
- Generations 2, as the accounts give them
Gods in company,
as the records
count them.
Not a fixed roster
The members
A family photograph
Each row stands a generation below the row above it, as the accounts give their kinship. Membership is what the records say.
What this means
9 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
The rows are counted from the kinship among the members themselves, as the accounts give it: a member whose parent is also a member stands a row below that parent. This is kinship inside the accounts — what the myths and the texts say, not a documented family — and where they disagree, every recorded parent is counted. Where the accounts loop — Gaia is Uranus’s mother and his consort — the loop is cut, not resolved. A documented human family is not drawn here, and neither is a member with no account kinship to another; both are listed below.
Kinship as the accounts give it,
not a documented family.
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I Eldest on record
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II A generation below
Members · 9
Everyone it counts
Gods first, then people — including those the photograph leaves out.
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Surya Solar god in Hinduism -
Chandra Lunar god in Hinduism
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Brihaspati Vedic sage, alternatively the Indic name of planet Jupiter, also a Hindu deity -
Śani Planet Saturn, also a Hindu deity
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Rahu Hindu deity representing ascending lunar node
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Shukra Planet Venus, also a Hindu deity
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Budha Planet Mercury, also a Hindu deity
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Ketu Hindu deity representing descending lunar node
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Mangala Planet Mars, also a Hindu deity
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
0 statements on this record
This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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