mythical-creature-leaf1 Culture mythical-creature-leaf2
mythical-creature-leaf3 Attribute mythical-creature-leaf4
mythical-creature-leaf5 Common Type mythical-creature-leaf6





Rahu

  • Mythical Number: #2760
  • Culture:  Indian Indian
  • Attribute:  Humanoid Humanoid
  • Attribute:  Celestial Celestial
  • Behaviour:  Deadly Deadly

A human with the head and tail of a Dragon. In a Hindu tale, Rahu went uninvited to a festival where gods were drinking amrita the magical elixir. The sun and the moon saw him there and warned Vishnu of his presence. Vishnu then threw a discus, which beheaded the creature. Rahu had already drunk the elixir of mortality. His head then flew off into the sky and would spend the rest of his time eating away at the moon and eventually eclipsing it only for it to return to full power once more. Rahu is associated with the lunar cycles.

Rahu has been viewed 2121 times.

Help the Mythical Creature List website: If you spot a spelling, grammatical or factual error about Rahu then please let me know.

Did you find Rahu interesting? If you are skilled in art, then why not draw a scary or actioned-packed drawing of the Deadly Rahu and send it to this website. Would you like to delve deeper into Hindu and Indian myth? Watch all these stories of Demons, heros and war in the 3D animation Ramayana (1997). The delightful cartoon Dashavatar (2008) tells the stories of the 10 incarnations of Vishnu who overcomes Demons and beasts to save the world. The best source for Hindu mythology is of course the books themselves.