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Goddess Durga and a pantheon of other gods and goddesses being worshipped during Durga Puja Festival in Kolkata. Deities in Hinduism are referred to as Deva (masculine) and Devi (feminine). [45] [46] [47] The root of these terms means "heavenly, divine, anything of excellence". [48] In the earliest Vedic literature, all supernatural beings are ...
The Trimurti are the most prominent deities of contemporary Hinduism. This consists of Brahma - the Creator, Vishnu - the Preserver, and Shiva - the Destroyer. Their feminine counterparts are Saraswati - the wife of Brahma, Lakshmi - the wife of Vishnu, and Parvati (or Durga) - the wife of Shiva. Statue of Brahma.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ]
Ganesha(Sanskrit: गणेश, IAST: Gaṇeśa), also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Lambodaraand Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deitiesin the Hindu pantheon[4]and is the Supreme God in the Ganapatyasect. His depictions are found throughout India.[5]
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.