Hindu deities

are Durga and Kali. These goddesses are very influential in the Hindu culture for women. They show empowerment, guidance, and determination. Women in the Hindu culture have a certain dharma usually fulfilled by being a wife and mother (Women in Hinduism 66). Many of the Hindu feminine saints appeared during the bhakti movement (600-1700 EC). This opened doors to women and gave them more authority. This authority can be seen in how Hindu women live their lives and what social roles they play.…

Hinduism has no exact number of “deities” but the rough estimate is thought to be approximately three hundred and thirty million different gods. There are three main gods associated with Hinduism. Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva are referred to as the trinity of Hinduism. Brahma is considered…

king Samudrin(Zamorin) of calicut lived in a palace. On his way to the palace, Vasco stopped to pray at a Hindu temple. He was under the mistaken belief that the Hindus were heretical Christians. His landing party had assumed that Hindu temples were Christian churches, they had misconstrued the Brahmans invocation of a local deity as veneration of the Virgin Mary and they had decided the Hindu…

have a wedding ceremony, all the wedding ceremonies are not necessarily the same. For instance, the Hindu wedding ceremony has a specific set of rituals and rites that make it a unique ceremony. Wedding ceremonies in the Hindu culture are also considered a joyous occasion. In the Hindu religion, the wedding ceremony…

and the father of Krishna, a Hindu Diety. Vasudeva’s name can be broken down into “vasu”, meaning good, and “deva”, meaning deity. Siddhartha looked up to the ferrymen, in some sense, like a deity. Vasudeva’s last scene in the book is portrayed in a very god-like manner, with Siddhartha seeing him walk into the wood to die with “his steps full of peace, his face glowing, his form full of light” (Hesse 137). Hesse’s…

and period of time, they are embedded in many mythologies. The existence of LGBTQ people in the ancient world should be discussed more within history since most ancient mythologies are laced with LGBTQ themes. Taking a look at Greek, Chinese, and Hindu mythologies will prove that queer people have always existed. Today Greece is a rather conservative country, yet back in the…

Professor Ulrich THEO 424 12/21/16 Introduction *** In this paper, I will be discussing the history, beliefs and challenges of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) religious movement and how it presents arising issues to Christianity and Judaism. This is an important topic to address because the ISKCON movement has been gaining more followers all over the world since it started in 1966. This movement now has over 600 temples, 60 farm communities, 50 schools and 90…

what the people worshipped while the sculpted cliff highlights the evolution of South Asian art to now include the image of the king. Both images contain narrative scenes, but the style and structure are different. The sculpted cliff features the Hindu story…

The Bhagavad-Gita is an ancient Hindu text depicting the qualms of a prince during a war against his own kin. Despite the text coming into existence many centuries ago, the teachings are still relevant to this day. Although the characters and lessons are derived from Hinduism and the culture, the Gita is still applicable to day to day life even for one not of the Hindu faith. The lessons are taught from a deity under the guise of a lowly charioteer accompanying Prince Arjuna. Sri Krishna is the…

religions in the world, out of all the larger belief systems. The Hindu religion has been around for thousands of years and contains many beliefs, practices, and types of worship. Hindus have a bountiful amount of gods, including the god Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu, this idea can be contrasted with the Christian ideal of one God. Hinduism originated in India and is still practiced around the world today.…