RELG 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Indus River, Trimurti, Achaemenid Empire
22 May 2019
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Hinduism, buddhism, islam, jainism, sikhism, zoroastrianism, orthodox christianity, They were an agrarian people, with domesticization, irrigation. Circa 1800 bce, there was a migration of ancient persians to the area. The indo-european languages prove this link between europe and india. They were a proto-zoroastrian people, and the merging of this religion with existing indian religion = formation of hinduism. Aryan people are persians, there was a group of indians who referred to themselves as the noble ones appropriation of the swastika. We call it a migration because it was actually the persians coming with. Bronze age weaponry and imposing the caste system. The ultimate godhead brahman , as the monistic divine reality creator, abstract divinity. The trimurti is an anthropomorphized expression of brahman. A pantheon of thousands of other smaller divinities. Truth is one; sages call it by various names . Upanishads some are common to buddhism. Bhagabad gita and mahabharata story of arjuna and krishna on the eve of war.
