Divine Sages and Minor Deities

Minor deities, divine sages and attendant figures who support or accompany the major gods without belonging to one of this atlas's other pantheon groups, including Ganesha and Kartikeya, the sons of Shiva and Parvati, the monkey god Hanuman, Vishnu's eagle mount Garuda, the divine architect Vishvakarma, the love god Kamadeva and his consort Rati, Chitragupta, who keeps the records of the dead for Yama, the creator sage Prajapati and the primordial sage Daksha, and Ila, a figure of a Vedic-era gender-transformation myth.