there is no such thing as a non-western intellectual approach to religion

to explain their own religion

yeah, that the hindus then also took, but not in terms of practice

no, not at all

if this is at all occuring

it would be amongst the ranks of folks like the RSS

as hinduism mostly doesn't have rational explanations

who are like hindu salafists

Are you cargest or yarfy, @Yarf Mangione ?

it's heathenism

and local paganism

for the most part

Vishvamitra mentions the 3, 4, and 5 headed Brahma and is in the Rigveda

Sorry

Cargest

That wasn't it

Carjack

the Brahma that is in the rigved is not the Brahma that become part of the trimurti, but even so

gods with multiple heads are not a trinity

Shiva is not in the vedas as anything but an epithet for Rdura

Rudra*

Vishnu I don't know

I don't believe he is in the vedas, but I could be wrong

yes even though shiva was already a seperate local god

that was probably carjack

that was found in the indus valley

Yeah Shiva was likely something they appropriated

they are reading shiva back onto the aryan god

Well, maybe not Shiva

just as the greeks did

but certainly aspects of Shiva

reading mercury onto odin

the deity that became shiva

it would be like going back to ancient greece, not knowing anything, seeing jupiter enthroned and presuming that's where jesus enthroned in heaven came from

and the answer is yes

I can see them adopting Latin artwork, it makes sense

>greece
>jupiter

Jagganath is considered an aspect of Shiva

they stole Hermes for angles and cupid for cherub art

yeah right dangerous dan

he is definitely an older, local god