ketu
केतु ketuThe descending lunar node, the headless body of the demon Svarbhanu; a 'shadow planet' of detachment, loss and spiritual liberation.
Where this term appears
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
Rahu and Ketu are the two points where the Moon's path across the sky crosses the Sun's, the lunar nodes, the places where eclipses happen.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
…esentations of them to Madhya Pradesh around 500, and the addition of Ketu to the eight, completing the group of nine in art, to the early seventh century.
- The Pancha Bhuta Sthalam: Five Element Temples Temples
…e temple is also the foremost place to perform the rites for Rahu and Ketu , the shadow-planets, and Sambandar's hymn sings the theme: for Shiva's servant, the sun and moon and "serpents twain", the dragons of …
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
…n, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and then Rahu and Ketu , the chhaya-grahas , the shadow-grahas, which are the ascending and descending nodes of the moon's orbit: the two points where eclipse…
- The Government of the Cosmos Treatise
…n) — and then two more that are unique to the Indian scheme, Rāhu and Ketu , the two points where the moon's path crosses the sun's, the invisible "shadow-planets" held responsible for eclipses.