Storia do Mogor 247.3

247.3

To find this head Brahma transformed himself into a swan and flew away into mid-sky. When in despair of success in his search, he found in his course a thistle flower, and going to it, it told him where Rudra's head was. Brahma in the form of a swan heard this, and without a word made off in haste to find it. It is impossible to describe or imagine the resentment felt by Rudra at being thus discovered by Brahma. He had thought it an impossibility. Aware that it was the flower that had revealed the secret, he bestowed his curse upon it. This is why the Yogis never put this flower in the temples of Rudra. Instead of acknowledging Brahma for the greatest of the gods, as agreed on, Rudra imposed on him as a curse that he should never be worshipped, should have no temples, no sacrifices, and no followers. Thus arose, as they say, the condition Brahma finds himself in, due to having discovered the head of Rudra. To find his feet, of which I spoke, Vishnu turned himself into a boar, and went off to grub in the earth with his tusks; he dug so deep that he reached the bottomless abyss without ever finding the feet he sought for. Thus he had to return as stupid a beast as he had set out. This is why nowadays there is not in these regions anyone who reverences the boar.