Hindu Cosmology Essay

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The Hindu cosmology is having or including many myths about creation. And the most important players have risen and fallen in importance over a period of 100 years. The earliest Vedic text, the Rig Veda, tells of a gigantic being, Purusha, possessing a thousand heads, eyes, and feet. He completely covered the earth, extending beyond it by the space of ten fingers. When the Gods sacrificed Purusha, his body produced a purer or easier to see through butter, which to be the source of the birds and animals. His body parts transformed into the world’s elements, and the God’s Agni, Vayu, and Indra. Also, the four division of society based upom differences of wealth, rank, or occupation of Hindu society were created from his body; the priests, warriors, general populace, and the …show more content…

According to some American Indian beliefs, the Earth Shaker formed the shape or the outline of many men and women, which he died in the huge amount of energy in the form of heat and light that comes from the Sun and into which he having voiceless life. Next, according to Inca mythology the creator God Viracocha formed humans from a heavy, sticky material from the earth on his second attempt at creating living creatures. As stated to the Qur’an, God created human from a heavy, sticky material from the earth or simply clay. Then, according to Chinese mythology, Nuwa molded figures from the yellow earth, giving them life and the ability to give birth to all the children. In a way that is based on Egyptian mythology, the God Khnum creates human children or a baby from clay before placing them into their mother’s womb. And additional information or story from Sumerian, in which both Enki and Ninmah get drunk from beer and enter into a contest that involves one God making a physical or mental disability or deformed humans from the moist clay of the Abzu, the other God make an official decision that a function for the created voiceless