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Vedic mythology that occupies a pivotal position in the history of religions, is a significant aspect of Hindu mythology and has directly contributed to the evolution and development of Hinduism. Vedic mythology, which finds expression in a number of Vedic rituals and symbolism, also contains a number of religious concepts, which are generally indistinguishable from Hindu traditions. // History of Polytheistic Paganism =Ancient Paganism Pharaonic religion Greek religion Roman religion =Modern Polytheism History of Santeria History of Monotheism Indian religions family History of Hinduism History of Buddhism History of the Faiths of the Book History of Judaism History of Christianity History of Roman Catholicism History of Eastern Orthodox...
The term Hindu mythology refers collectively to a large body of Indian literature (essentially, the mythology of Hinduism) that detail the lives and times of legendary personalities, deities and divine incarnations on earth interspersed with often large sections of philosophical and ethical discourse. ...
Hinduism (सनातन धरà¥à¤®; also known as SanÄtana Dharma, and Vaidika-Dharma) is a worldwide religious tradition that is based on the bedrock of the Veda scriptures. ...
Background
The Vedic mythology owes its genesis to the Vedas, also called the Vedam, which are part of the Hindu Shruti. In Sanskrit the word means Knowledge or Truth, and is cognate with the word "wisdom" in English (as well as "vision" through Latin). This article is about the Hindu Shruti. ...
Hinduism (सनातन धरà¥à¤®; also known as SanÄtana Dharma, and Vaidika-Dharma) is a worldwide religious tradition that is based on the bedrock of the Veda scriptures. ...
Shruti (what is heard) is a canon of Hindu scriptures, early forms of which may have existed as early as 1500 BC, with most scholarship favoring dates between 1200 and 800 BC. Shruti is said to have no author; rather, it is believed to be a divine recording of the...
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Hindus believe that the Vedas existed since time immemorial as vibrations in space, some portions of which are believed to have been perceived by seers and sages, and transmitted accordingly through an oral tradition. Some believe that the Vedas were transmitted orally for up to 8000 years (see Fisher). Most Western and a few Indian commentators see this as an exaggeration and date the earliest part of the Veda, the Rig-Veda Samhita, to around 1800–800 BC. However, it is acknowledged by most that the Vedas did indeed have a long oral tradition and were passed from teacher to disciple for at least many centuries before first being written down. A Hindu is an adherent of Hinduism, the predominant religious, philosophical and cultural system of India (Bharat). ...
Oral history is an account of something passed down by word of mouth from one generation to another. ...
A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ...
Mary Pat Fisher is the director for international correspondence at the Gobind Sadan Institute of New Delhi. ...
The Rig Veda ऋगà¥à¤µà¥‡à¤¦ (Sanskrit á¹›gveda from á¹›c praise + veda knowledge) is a collection of hymns counted among the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and contains the oldest texts preserved in any Indo-Iranian language. ...
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Dimensions The vedic mythology has several dimensions.
The deities Vedic mythologies contain certain elements which are common to other mythological traditions, like the mythologies of Persia, Greece, and Rome. Indra, a mythological god of the Vedas, is like Dyaus Pitar, the Sky Father, and is like Zeus and Iuppiter. The Vedic god Yama, the god who collects the dead, is Yima of Persian mythology and Emma in the Buddhist tradition of Japan. Vedic mythology contains descriptions and celestial hymns praising several other natural and super natural phenomenon and lays down an elaborate groundwork of concepts for 33 major devas, that is, divinities, consisting of eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Adityas, and Prajapati Brahma. These divinities are said to belong to three dimensions of the universe, the earth, the heavens, and the intermediate, that is the space. Some major deities of the Vedic tradition include Indra, Surya, Agni, Vayu, Varuna, Yama, Kubera, Soma,Mitra, Kama, Gayatri, Aditi, Ushas, Sarasvati and Rudra. The beliefs and practices of the culturally and linguistically related group of ancient peoples who inhabited the Iranian Plateau and its borderlands, as well as areas of Central Asia from the Black Sea to Khotan (modern Ho-tien, China), form Persian mythology. ...
Roman mythology can be considered as two parts. ...
Indra (इनà¥à¤¦à¥à¤°), god of weather and war, and Lord of Heaven or Swargaloka, was the supreme deva of Hinduism during the early Vedic period. ...
Statue of Zeus The Greek sculptor Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall Statue of Zeus in about 435 bc. ...
Tibetan Dharmapala at the Field Museum in Chicago Yama is the lord of death whose first recorded appearance is in the Vedas. ...
Indra (इनà¥à¤¦à¥à¤°), god of weather and war, and Lord of Heaven or Swargaloka, was the supreme deva of Hinduism during the early Vedic period. ...
In Hinduism, Surya is the chief solar deity, son of Dyaush or Indra. ...
The word Agni can have these meanings:- A fire-god in three religions: described below. ...
In Hinduism, Vayu is a primary god, father of Bhima and Hanuman. ...
This article is about the god. ...
Tibetan Dharmapala at the Field Museum in Chicago Yama is the lord of death whose first recorded appearance is in the Vedas. ...
In Hinduism, Kubera (also Kuvera or Kuber) is the god of wealth and the lord of Uttaradisha. ...
Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan) (from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Sauma) was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and Iranian cultures. ...
Mitra or Mithra is an important deity of Persian and Indic culture; he appears in the Vedas as one of the Adityas, a solar deity and the god of honesty, friendship, and contracts. ...
In Hinduism, Kama is the god of love and a son of Lakshmi. ...
Gayatri (gÄyatrÄ«) is the feminine form of gÄyatra, a Sanskrit word for a song or a hymn. ...
In Hinduism, Aditi (limitless) is a goddess of the sky, consciousness, the past, the future and fertility. ...
Ushas (उषः úṣas-), Sanskrit for dawn, is the chief goddess (sometimes imagined as several goddesses, Dawns) exalted in the Rigveda. ...
This article is about Saraswati, the Hindu goddess. ...
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The rituals - One of the most widely practiced Vedic rituals involved offerings and sacrifices in fire, which was known as Yagyas. Over a period of time, the vedic ritual of Yagyas became Yajna.
- The Saptapadi, which literally means the seven steps, involves the groom and the bride taking seven rounds around a sacred fire. This ritual has a Vedic origin, as after completing the last round, that is the seventh step, the groom declares: Let us come closer and make a vow together. We shall be of one mind and heart, and observe our vows together. I shall be the Sama-Veda and you the Rig-Veda. We shall live united and beget children, and other riches. Come closer, O my sweet-worded damsel. This ritual of the Vedic mythology still continues to be a cardinal principle of traditional Hindu marriage ceremony, and no Hindu marriage is considered complete in the absence of the Saptapadi.
Yagyas (also spelled yagnas) are ancient Vedic performances, performed in precise manner and time by trained pundits. ...
In Hinduism, Yajna or Yagya (Sanskrit yajñá worship, prayer, praise; offering, oblation, sacrifice) is a ritual of sacrifice performed to please the Devas. ...
The Sama Veda (सामवेद), or Veda of Holy Songs, is third in the usual order of enumeration of the four Vedas, the ancient core Hindu scriptures. ...
The Rig Veda ऋगà¥à¤µà¥‡à¤¦ (Sanskrit á¹›gveda from á¹›c praise + veda knowledge) is a collection of hymns counted among the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and contains the oldest texts preserved in any Indo-Iranian language. ...
The concepts
Vedic quotes - The universe is in the glory of God: the Shiva, the God of love.
- In the heaven, there is no fear at all, the death does not stalk there, and the thought of growing old does not make one tremble. There is no hunger and the thirst in the heaven, and away from the reach of sorrow and suffering, all rejoice there.
See also Hinduism is a monist and monotheist religion that understands different deities as representing various aspects and principles of one supreme entity, Brahman or parabrahman. ...
Hinduism (सनातन धरà¥à¤®; also known as SanÄtana Dharma, and Vaidika-Dharma) is a worldwide religious tradition that is based on the bedrock of the Veda scriptures. ...
Further reading - Vedic Mythology by A. A. Macdonell (ISBN 8121509491)
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