REL 1000 Chapter : Hinduism Part 1
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Hinduism: the indus river is where hinduism came from. Indus valley civilization: the sanskrit (the aryans language) which shows they were more powerful, veneration for sacred places and tress, pools of water are some things that survived from the indus valley civilization. Meditation, seated yogi came from them: proto-shiva deity- rudra---shiva is rudra all grown up so they took the indus valley god and transformed him, goddess worship. Features of aryan influence: sanskrit (language, vedas (most sacred text, deities (indra, agni, open air altar for fire sacrifice. There are 4 vedas: rig veda is the oldest, probably written around 1500 bc at earlier, within each other 4 vedas there are 4 parts, collection of hymns and ritual instructions, thought to be divinely revealed. Smrithi (wisdom that is remembered: ramayana (epic, mahabharata (epic, all hindus could tell you in detail the whole story.
