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{{Short description|Figure in Sanskrit legend}}
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{{other uses|Bheki (given name)}}
'''Bheki''' ([[Sanskrit]]: भेकि) is the name given to a [[frog]] that symbolises the [[sun]] on the horizon in [[Sanskrit]] legend. Related myths can be found in [[Germanic mythology|Germanic]] and [[Celtic mythology|Celtic]] culture.<ref>{{cite book |first=Andrew |last=Lang |chapter=‘Cupid, Psyche, and the "Sun-Frog"’, Custom and Myth (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1884) |orig-year=1884 |title=The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang |volume=1: Anthropology, Fairy Tale, Folklore, The Origins of Religion, Psychical Research |editor1=Teverson, Andrew |editor2=Warwick, Alexandra |editor3=Wilson, Leigh |pages=66–78 |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year=2015 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt16r0jdk.9 |access-date=25 June 2020 |jstor=10.3366/j.ctt16r0jdk.9|isbn=9781474400213 }}</ref>

In the legend, Bheki was originally a beautiful woman. A king asked her to be his wife, so she married him, but only on condition that he should never show her a drop of water. One day she grew tired, and asked for water. The king gave it to her, and she sank out of his sight, just as the sun sinks when it touches the water.

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[[Category:Middle Eastern mythology]]
[[Category:Mythological amphibians]]
[[Category:Fictional frogs]]


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