This story needs to be popularized more, it's such a ridiculous tale. I read it in Myths and Tales of India, it's probably from the earlier hindu scriptures.
So the story goes thusly-Vishnu& Brahma are fighting over who is the greatest god of all, and all of a sudden a fiery lingam burning bright appears out of nowhere. They both fly towards either end of the fiery lingam, for many thousands of years in hyper-speed and yet don't find the ending. They come back to the starting point and admit defeat-an entity with a lingam large enough for them to be unable to travel over a thousands of years is surely greater and more powerful than them. And they does it become known by the two supreme deities that Shiva is greater than both of them, alone or combined.
This surely has to be the strangest, 'largest' and most religious dick-measuring contest not just in hindu mythology but all mythologies. And yet I don't find reference to this crazy tale in popular culture often enough. We need to change that!
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