Ketu

That the tradition assigned the two halves OPPOSITE dispositions — the head grasping at the world, the body turned away from it — is the part of the story worth a registry's attention, and it is on both records rather than summarised on one.

Domains

• spiritual detachment
• lunar node

Relations

• severed half of: Rahu
• beheaded by: Vishnu

Sources

• Reference treatments of Rahu and Ketu and of the Samudra Manthan.