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The Vedas are
the main and intrinsic part of the Hindu mythology.
Hindu mythology roots back to 7200 BC
when the first hymns of the RIG VEDA was composed.
There is no systematic theology in the Vedas. The hymns of
the RIG VEDA are the first and freshest expression of the
sense of beauty and gladness awakened in the Aryan race by
the charms and the bounty of nature.
The gods of the Vedas are in their apparent origin no more
than the poetic epithets of space, the heavens, the
firmament, sun and earth, day and night, twilight and
dawn, wind and rain, storm and sunshine; all ministering
to the divine care of man, in the breathing air and
radiant light, the fleeting moon and constant stars, the
rising mists and falling dews and the rivers which flow
down the hills through the fruitful plains making with the
flocks and herds and woods and fields, one ceaseless voice
of praise and adoration. The etymological meaning of the
epithets is so clear that it at once explains the myths,
which, in the course of time became attached to them. Thus
the VEDAS mirror the exactly how the
words uttered centuries ago by the Vedic RISHIS (bards)
and sages gradually became the gods of India.
VEDIC GODS assumed the most undoubted personality, of the
real qualities intended to be expressed by their names.
They have no fixed hierarchy, or regular genealogy, no
settled marriages and relationships; they remain to the
last transparent reflections of those physical phenomena
and powers of which they are the earliest known
appellations. They were mere abstractions, intangible and
illusive personification of powers of Nature. It is only
in the Puranas that they become invested with strong
personality, and it is their order among the Puranic gods
that the conventional representation of them in the later
mythology of the Hindus was more appropriately described.
Rig Veda - lore of the verses, enumerates numerous Vedic
Gods. The earliest accepted Gods were
DYAUSH PITA (the sky father),
PRITHVI MATHA (the earth mother),
VAYU(the wind God),
PARJANYA (the rain God), SURYA
(the sun God), VARUNA (the God of oceans), AGNI (the fire
God), INDRA (the war God), SOMA (the God of speech, deity
of soma creeper), USHAS (the Goddess of dawn), YAMA (the
God of death), ADITYAS (a group of deities, who are six in
number in the Rig Veda, eight in most of the Brahmanas and
twelve in the Satapatha Brahmana), ASWINI (twin Deities),
RUDRAS (eight in number), VASUS (eight in number) and
VISVEDEVAS ( ten in number).
Vedic priests believed in ceremonies and rituals, which
were offered to appease these Gods. No one Vedic God has
been considered the Supreme God. In fact, different Gods
have been considered as Supreme at different times,
attributing the powers and qualities of one to another.
Apart from Gods who have been attributed specific
characteristics, several inanimate objects, qualities,
emotions and various forms of nature had also been deified
and worshipped. What began as a celebration of natural
elements such as Air, Water and Fire was converted into
the worship of cosmic elements such as the sun, moon and
stars. And thus formed the triad of the early VEDIC GODS -
AGNI (god of fire), VAYU (god of air) and SURYA (god of
energy or life) - THE COSMIC TRINITY. These were all sons
of PRITHVI (Mother nature) and DYAUS (the sky). In
addition to this the nine planets (NAVAGRAHA) were also
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