are you a god when it comes to knowing your religion,my seven year old has some home work about Hinduism and i

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my seven year old has some home work and im drawing a blank (and running out of time) to find the answers.please excuse some of the questios remember he is only 7 any help will be much appreciated and earn me some brownie points!!!

how many gods are there (all religions)
do the gods have games (all religions)
how many hindu gods are there
why is vishnu blue
what do the snakes on vishnu mean
are all hindu gods male
do the gods have wives/girlfriend/children
how long have hindu gods lived
how old are their gods
what sort of people are hindus
do hindu people have houses !
di hindu people have paper
is there a special dress that hindus wear

thanks for your help and please keep it simple

Answer 1

How is a seven year old supposed to find all that out?Are you sure he didnt learn this in school?

Answer 2

Even though I think your Q is a joke, I will answer some of your Qs

There is one God in Hinduism who has a multitude of names and forms and Hinduism is comprised of very many sects and cults--so this Q cannot be answered exactly.

Vishnu is pale blue like the sky because he is the "pervading" deity. Vishnu comes from the word Vishwas which sort of means "all this". In the Hindu trinity, Vishnu is the world-sustainer. He is the aspect of the Hindu trinity that reincarnates to reestablish righteousness on earth (The epic heros Krishna and Rama, for instance, are believed to be incarnation of Vishnu and some modern Hindus believe that Jesus is a reincarnation of Vishnu as well).

Vishnu is not associated with snakes and doesn't wear snakes (Shiva does. Shiva is the transformational/destructive aspect of the Hindu trinity). Vishnu is associated with the mythical sea serpent Sesha (which means "remainder") and symbolizes the remainder of time and space. Between world cycles, Vishnu is said to sleep on the serpent Sesha (the primordial matter from which a new universe will form) on the cosmic ocean. The creator god, Brahma sits in a lotus that grows out of Vishnu's navel. When Vishnu awakens, Brahma creates the world again.

Many Hindu gods have goddess consorts (wives). The male deity represents divine consciousness; the female deity represents the deity's creative and transformational power. Different myths name different wives for the different gods, particularly for Shiva. Sarasvati is traditionally named as Brahma's wife and Lakshmi is traditionally named as Vishnu's wife. Shiva's wife is sometimes noted to be Kali, Parvati, or Shakti. This all has specific symbolic and philosophical meaning that i won't get into here.

Hindus are regular people. Hinduism defines a culture as well as a religion among Indians. Yeah, they live in houses and wear regular clothes and all that.

Answer 3

I am not a hindu;..the snakes on Vishnu mean bad thoughts. or distractions to the truth of God..and her toungues are eating the bad thoughts and destroying them.

I don't know how many gods there are...probably millions...but these mostly are etheric manifestations of collective energy..and they have power but aren't the Absolute Beingness that created us all.

I think gods can play games..they do indeed love to have joy and peace and fun!

Blue is a healing colour...perhaps Vishnu heals.

Good people are hindus....just like everyone else.

Yes...they have paper.

Not all are male...some are female...the gods you are asking about.

Your dear son sounds like someone amazing...God bless his little heart.

Here is a website he might like..it talks about the Christian belief of reincarnation...www.researchersoftruth.org This website is extensive...and if you sign up for the newsletter...you can get some understanding on how everything works...and why. Then you will know that Hindus and Buddists are on the same path as everyone else...and it is love that is the most important...for God is love.

Answer 4

1. there are many gods in the world and there are still more being made
2. what?
3. ALOT!
4. sorry
5. i can't really help here
6. try looking it up on research sites
7. i think so
8. as long as hindu people have
9. ancient
10. thats a touchy ? so i would just say they are normal people with different beliefs from others
11. some but the poverty rate is a bit high
12. yes
13. i dont know
you might want to look this stuff up but dont use wikipedia especially for religious info because anyone could purposely put wrong info in it

Answer 5

there is only one supreme god in hinduism but many gods to worship the one god by
some played games when they were young e.g. krishna
to many gods for me to know
vishnu is blue beceause The color blue symbolizes the infinite (google it)
not sure about the snakes
no not all are male, e.g Lord Shiva
yes they do have wifes ... ram and sita
not sure aout age they live forever??
yeah they have house why would they not?
i think the paper one is over the top
the dress is called a sarii

Answer 6

Hinduism, the world’s oldest religion, has no beginning--it precedes recorded history. It has no human founder. It is a mystical religion, leading the devotee to personally experience the Truth within, finally reaching the pinnacle of
consciousness where man and God are one.

1.God is a one being, yet we understand Him in three perfections: Absolute Reality, Pure Consciousness and Primal Soul. As Absolute Reality, God is unmanifest, unchanging and transcendent, the Self God, timeless, formless and spaceless. As Pure Consciousness, God is the manifest primal substance, pure divine love and light flowing through all form, existing everywhere in time and space as infinite intelligence and power.God is all and in all, great beyond our conception, a sacred mystery that can be known in direct communion.
Hindus believe in one Supreme Being. In the Hindu pantheon there are said to be three hundred and thirty-three million Lords(divine beings). The plurality of Lords are perceived as divine creations of that one Being. So, Hinduism has one supreme God, but it has an extensive hierarchy of Lords.Finally, it must be clearly understood that God and the Lords are not a psychological product of the Hindu religious mind. They are far older than the universe and are the fountainheads of its galactic energies, shining stars and sunlit planets. They are loving overseers and custodians of the cosmos, earth and mankind. The Hindu cosmological terrain envelopes all of humanity
2.Vishnu represents akasha-cosmic sky-so he is blue.
3.Snake in Hinduism represents the Kundalini Sakthi which is the primordial cosmic energy.
4.Esoterically, it must be admitted that none of the Gods has a wife. Their consorts are not to be considered as separate from them, but as aspects of their being, as their shakti or power. The Mahadevas who live in the Third World cannot be likened to men and women who live on the earth. They exist in perfectly evolved soul bodies, bodies which are not properly differentiated by sex. They are pure beings made of pure consciousness and light; they are neither male nor female. To better understand these Divine Gods, we sometimes conceive them as being the man if they are strong in expression or the woman if they are gentle and compassionate. There are no husbands and wives in the vast, superconscious realms of the Third World. The husband/wife notion is a puranic myth. The term Goddess can refer to a female perception or depiction of a Third World being (Mahadeva) in its natural state, which is genderless, or to a Second World being residing in a female astral-mental body. For example, Lakshmi and Sarasvati are not wives of Vishnu and Brahma, but personified powers of a sexless Deity who extends abundance and learning through the motherly empathy of a female form. And many of the village deities who protect children and crops are actually souls living close to earth in the astral plane, still functioning through the astral female or male body that is a duplicate of their last physical body.

India is the world's most ancient civilization. Nowhere on earth can you find such a rich and multi-layered tradition that has remained unbroken and largely unchanged for at least five thousand years. Bowing low before the onslaught of armies, and elements, India has survived every invasion, every natural disaster, every mortal disease and epidemic, the double helix of her genetic code transmitting its unmistakable imprint down five millennia to no less than a billion modern bearers. Indians have demonstrated greater cultural stamina than any other people on earth. The essential basis of Indian culture is Religion in the widest and most general sense of the world. An intuitive conviction that the Divine is immanent in everything permeated every phase of life," says Stanley Wolpert.

Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago." - Grant Duff British Historian of India. Dr. Vincent Smith has remarked, "

Answer 7

A seven year old has this assignment? WOW!!!!!!! Try this website it explains everything you need to know
Hope this help!

http://www.religionfacts.com/hinduism/history.htm

Answer 8

All religion is fiction.

Hinduism is more of a way of life than a religion.

Vishnu is the color of the clouds.

Answer 9

I AM THE GOD OF THIS WORLD