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| 2977233400 | Indra | God of water | 0 | |
| 2977233401 | Agni | God of fire | 1 | |
| 2977235085 | Trimurti | "Three forms of God." An iconographic representation of God in Hinduism, which depicts divinity as a three faced figure. These three faces represent God's roles of creation, preservation and destruction, which are associated with Brahma (the source or creator), Vishnu (the preserver or indwelling-life), and Shiva (the destroyer and transformer) respectively. These three personae are thought to represent different modalities of the one supreme divinity. Evolution from the Veda. Due in part to the development of the Vedanta. | 2 | |
| 2977251891 | Brahman | The Hindu Creator God. Said to have come out of the navel of Vishnu. When he opens his eyes, the universe is created; when he closes his eyes, the universe is destroyed--Hindu cosmogony. | 3 | |
| 2977254198 | Shiva | The Hindu Destroyer God. Shown as dancing on humans--but life cannot begin again without destruction. Consort: Parvati/Kali |  | 4 |
| 2977280867 | Vishnu | The Hindu Preserver God. Always drawn with multiple faces and arms. Some of his faces are animals because it is humans and the world, and just humans. He has multiple avatars. Consort: Lakshmi and her avatars |  | 5 |
| 2977294868 | Ganesha | Son of Shiva and Parvati and god of good luck. He is depicted as having an elephant head. |  | 6 |
| 2977305630 | Samsara | The cycle of rebirth and re-death--continuous. The base for all eastern religions (except shintoism). To escape the cycle of samsara had to achieve moksha. | 7 | |
| 2977316800 | Karma | The sum of good and bad--collective, cumulative--accumulated actions. Span over all lives. | 8 | |
| 2977323063 | Dharma | Your duty--do your dharma to improve your karma--move up in the cycle of samsara. Explains why there weren't rebellions (caste system)--can always improve in next life if you do your dharma. | 9 | |
| 2977331302 | Moksha | Release from the cycle of samsara--accumulation of karma--have to be a Brahmin male. | 10 | |
| 2977334601 | Nirvana | State of enlightenment--made it so achieving moksha wasn't necessary. Know the relationship between atman and Brahman, so don't need samsara--undermined the caste system | 11 | |
| 2979337754 | Bhakti | Spiritual devotion (internal). | 12 | |
| 2979354696 | Atman | Spark of the divine (Brahman) that exists in all people--can never go out. | 13 |
