subject: God - The different Indian Gods and Religions [print this page] God - The different Indian Gods and Religions
Indian Culture is filled with multiple gods and polytheism is the basis of the Indian tradition. Devas or devatas (Gods) are personification much like Roman Saints, except the Gods of India are substitutions of the same main God as visited under certain parameters of dimensional understanding. Devas and Devis (Goddesses) are the foci of specific abstruse concepts of Hindu philosophy substantiating as a particular characteristic or virtue.
Yet the Hindi polytheism can be challenged as such, since Shiva is the single God that other deities provide illustration for and their individual appearance is a structured supporting manifestation of characteristics and virtues of the individual God Ishvara, Yet Ishvara(himself) is also a term used to denote the entire family of godhood. Yet Ishvaralacks the animist individuality (and independence) of a Egyptian or Chinese god and stands for a monotheistic whole of Hindi godhood at once.
Like Judeo-Christian religious myths, the concrete and tangible representation of religious philosophy is formed by art such as sculpture, paintings, murals and books or scroll (parchment) illustrations. Temples, businesses, homes and holy places are chiefly identified by architectural focus on representations of the gods and their associated 'areas" of inspirational diversity of the main God Ishvara.
Brahma is one of three main Gods who furnish a trinity structure to Hinduism as a whole. Shiva is another of the Trimurti (triad) who operates to close the triangle with Vishnu.
The preachings of Hinduism are well explained using short stories where the Gods help individual people as per their deeds. Many individual life paths in (Indian) human existence intersect various divine gods according to their category of association with life-events at hand.
