Note 14 — Chapter VI · Bird and Serpent Myths
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The god Kubera has a heaven of its own, and is a form of Yama, god of death. In his form as Dharma, god of justice, Yama figures in the Mahábhárata14 as a “blue-eyed mungoose with one side of his body changed into gold”, his voice being “loud and deep as thunder”. Here Yama links with Indra, god of thunder, who, having a heaven of his own, is also a god of death. Egypt had its “blue-eyed Horus”.15 The god Horus was the living form of Osiris. The living Pharaoh was a Horus, and the dead Pharaoh an Osiris, as Dr. Gardiner reminds us.