Mythical Cycles of Creation and Renewal

We must expect the confusion of roles and sagas. Some deities may lose original features

that we then only find in other deities, or vice versa: deities may acquire features that originally

belonged to other deities. Therefore, in our investigations, we must become comfortable

with the idea that a saga or figure allows many different comparisons and interpretations

from various sources. It may also be true that even at the beginning, primitive peoples

did not strictly separate these different deities because they were perhaps understood as different

expressions of a single deity. In this regard, we want to remember the Indian triad

Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. They, together with their