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Indian Mythology
Hanuman tried to eat the Sun
As an infant, Hanuman mistook the rising sun for a ripe mango and leapt into the sky to swallow it. Indra struck him down with a thunderbolt, injuring his jaw — the name Hanuman means "disfigured jaw".
Indian Mythology
Ganesha wrote with his own tusk
When Vyasa dictated the Mahabharata, Ganesha agreed to scribe it only if the telling never paused. Mid-epic his pen broke, so he snapped off his own tusk and kept writing.
Indian Mythology
Gods and demons churned an ocean together
In the Samudra Manthan, devas and asuras used Mount Mandara as a churning rod and the serpent Vasuki as the rope to pull nectar of immortality from the ocean of milk. Poison surfaced first — Shiva drank it.