Bhaga

Bhaga ( Bhaga Sanskrit भग m., Encoder) is in Vedic mythology, one of the Adityas, a descendant of the goddess Aditi. He is regarded as wealth and love -makers, as the god of marriage.

In the Rigveda Bhaga appears as " distributor " or " dispenser ", which is expected to prosperity, happiness and power, his name is in this case used as both equity as well as the generic name. When his sister, the dawn is called in one place. In post-Vedic scriptures it is dedicated to the god of marriage, the in- spring month Pausa.

It is believed that it has traded at Bhaga a God with a wider meaning and its characterization as a bringer of prosperity in the Rigveda is already at the end of a mythological development, to which he has sunk so far. The cars in the Persian Zoroastrianism God's name Baga is identified with the Vedic Bhaga. Baga appear here on the one hand as an epithet of various gods, especially of Ahura Mazda, on the other hand, as a generic term for 'God'.