to the earth to space astronaut lord hanuman
in the Hindu legend of Ramayana, Hanuman, the son of the wind god Vayu, mistook the rising sun for a fruit to eat itIn side: Reaching for the Sun
One morning when he was a young child, Hanuman woke up and felt extremely hungry. He saw a big sphere floating above him, bright red and glistening. Thinking with his belly, Hanuman assumed the sphere was a ripe and juicy piece of fruit, so he leapt up to grab and eat it. However, the red sphere was not a piece of fruit, but the rising sun coming up over the horizon!
To punish Hanuman for his mistake and to stop him from snatching the sun out of the sky, the King of Gods Indra intervened and struck Hanuman with a thunderbolt. It hit Hanuman on his chin, and he fell to the earth – dead – and with a broken jaw. This is in fact where Hanuman gets his name: the word Hanuman originally meant
‘disfigured jaw’.
His father, Vayu the God of air, became very upset and ran away from the world. This meant that there was no air for living beings to breathe, so all the gods, people and animals began to suffer terribly.
This led Lord Shiva, one of the most powerful Gods, to bring Hanuman back to life. Vayu was so relieved that he returned to the world and living beings were able to breathe the air again. World’s first human went to the earth to space astronaut lord hanuman