
62: Language in Spaaaaace (with Hannah Little)
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Is Varuna the Hindu God of the Sky?
So the Latin equivalent is Kaelus, and it's the god of the sky. And you just said that Varuna was the god of water. Oh, I said it was the Sanskrit equivalent, didn't I? Okay, I'm not certain that that is true. Let me just change that. It is Sanskrit. And it might be a totally different god, but I'm okay with that. So Indra would be the Hindugod of the sky according to my single Google. Well, then let's do that. We'll have a Twitter poll and we'll report on that for our next bonus episode.
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