The boar avatāra of Viṣṇu, who dives into the cosmic ocean to lift the drowned earth-goddess Bhūmi on his tusks and slays the daitya Hiraṇyākṣa — the cosmogonic rescue that re-founds the world at the start of the present kalpa.
Domains
cosmic rescue
Powers
Raise the drowned earth from the cosmic ocean on his tusks