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Communities of goddess worship are ancient in India. In the Rigveda, the most prominent goddess is Ushas, the goddess of dawn. The regional goddesses venerated in Hinduism are generally syncretised with Parvati, Lakshmi, or Adi Parashakti. Some of the major goddesses revered in modern Hinduism include:
This article is about deities in Hinduism. For Hindu views on God, see God in Hinduism. For the Hindu concept of God, see Ishvara and Bhagavan. Examples of Hindu deities (from top): Ganesha, Vishnu, Shiva, Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati. Hindu deities are the gods and goddesses in Hinduism.
e. Hindu mythology is the body of myths [a] attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, [1] the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, [2]) the Puranas, [3] and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and Divya ...
Kali (/ ˈkɑːliː /; Sanskrit: काली, IAST: Kālī), also called Kalika, is a major goddess in Hinduism, primarily associated with time, death and destruction. The origins of Kali can be traced to ancient traditions of goddess worship in the Indian subcontinent, particularly within early Vedic and pre-Vedic cultures. [1]
The tradition of Krishna appears to be an amalgamation of several independent deities of ancient India, the earliest to be attested being Vāsudeva. [41] Vāsudeva was a hero-god of the tribe of the Vrishnis , belonging to the Vrishni heroes , whose worship is attested from the 5th–6th century BCE in the writings of Pāṇini , and from the ...
Wisnu is the god of justice or welfare, Wisnu was the fifth son of Batara Guru and Batari Uma. He is the most powerful son of all the sons of Batara Guru. Wisnu is described as a god who has bluish black or dark blue skin, has four arms, each of which holds a weapon, namely a mace, a lotus, a trumpet and a Cakra.
The Shiva-related tradition is a major part of Hinduism, found all over the Indian subcontinent, such as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, [ 57 ] and Southeast Asia, such as Bali, Indonesia. [ 58 ] Shiva has pre-Vedic tribal roots, [ 26 ] having "his origins in primitive tribes, signs and symbols." [ 59 ]
The word is also found in ancient post-Vedic Sanskrit texts such as in section 2.451 of the Mahabharata and section 4.27.16 of the Ramayana. [26] These usages are in different contexts. For example, Durg is the name of an Asura who had become invincible to gods, and Durga is the goddess who intervenes and slays him.