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Agni

Vayu

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Kurma
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Kartikeya

Ganesha

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Yama

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Ganga

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Soma

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Sheshnag
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Garuda

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Soma

Mangal

Budha

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Rahu

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SURYA - AGNI - VAYU

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 worshipped.

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