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Maya (mythology)

In Hinduism, Maya is the mother of Guatama Siddartha[?] (the Buddha). In a dream, she saw the spirit of the future Buddha enter her uterus in the shape of a small white elephant. Seven days after he was born, Maya died of ecstacy.

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