Talk:Kaa-u

"Kaa" is an hindi word for "python". In the "jungle book" by Rudyard Kipling the python Kaa is a friend of Mowgly and one of the good guys. This with Kaa as an enemy and villain is an odd idea of Disney! Indeed Kaa is something of a mentor to Mowgly. This fits in with the role of the Nagas, wise, powerful and usually good serpentbeings from Indian= Vendhya myth, arguably the source of inspiration for the serpent men. Note "Kaa" in the phrase "Ka naama Kaa lajerama". In the days of Kull a wiseman named Raama had much the same role as later Epimetreus the sage to the hyborians. The hindu deity Rama, an earthly avatar of Vishnu The preserver, was allegedly born in historical Ayodya = the capital of Vendhya! The scorpion as a champion of good stem with Indian buddhist symbolism. Arguably Kaa-u is an old - or perhaps the real!- name of Vendhya.