Gods Gods And Goddesses
Understanding the Roles of gods or goddess in Various Traditional Religions: A Case Study of Hinduism, Buddhism and Yorubaland Traditional Belief
God, gods and goddesses represent different qualities in the human psyche, God which we all see as the creator of the universe often called the omnipotent (Everywhere), omniscience and omnipresence while gods are usually the strongest and most influential determinants of a man’s personality, as the goddesses are for women. Different kind of gods; longevity, child protection, health and success, god of death, misfortune, god of the sea and every diseases. The term gods and goddesses can be best explained and understood under four sedimented cultural predispositions. First is the monotheistic culture of uneven attitude towards gods and goddesses when God is said to serve as the supreme being of the universe, the one who there are no others, in contrast to the observation of the Greek philosopher Thales that ‘’ the world is full of gods’’, the central of Islam begins, ‘’there is no other God but Allah’’ and the warning ‘’you shall have no other gods before’’ which heads the lists of the ten commandment given to Moses in the biblical world. Secondly, the demystification of the universe comes from the Scientific’s rationalism that Gods are fiction, a mere projection of natural realities. Thirdly approach is the deistic conceptuality with a general ideas as a metaphysical hypothesis designating ultimate order in the universe, something to be argued about and not something to be sacrificed to. Fourth is the Universalist one that the main gods of the world religions are all versions of the same effable divine reality such as Allah, God, Brahman, Buddha and Tao from various transcendent mystery.
Like myth and rituals, a god is a form of religion that can have any content, which could be demonic or benign, male or female, limited or unlimited in power. It can represent the power of vengeance, kingship, love, ancestry, luck,
God, gods and goddesses represent different qualities in the human psyche, God which we all see as the creator of the universe often called the omnipotent (Everywhere), omniscience and omnipresence while gods are usually the strongest and most influential determinants of a man’s personality, as the goddesses are for women. Different kind of gods; longevity, child protection, health and success, god of death, misfortune, god of the sea and every diseases. The term gods and goddesses can be best explained and understood under four sedimented cultural predispositions. First is the monotheistic culture of uneven attitude towards gods and goddesses when God is said to serve as the supreme being of the universe, the one who there are no others, in contrast to the observation of the Greek philosopher Thales that ‘’ the world is full of gods’’, the central of Islam begins, ‘’there is no other God but Allah’’ and the warning ‘’you shall have no other gods before’’ which heads the lists of the ten commandment given to Moses in the biblical world. Secondly, the demystification of the universe comes from the Scientific’s rationalism that Gods are fiction, a mere projection of natural realities. Thirdly approach is the deistic conceptuality with a general ideas as a metaphysical hypothesis designating ultimate order in the universe, something to be argued about and not something to be sacrificed to. Fourth is the Universalist one that the main gods of the world religions are all versions of the same effable divine reality such as Allah, God, Brahman, Buddha and Tao from various transcendent mystery.
Like myth and rituals, a god is a form of religion that can have any content, which could be demonic or benign, male or female, limited or unlimited in power. It can represent the power of vengeance, kingship, love, ancestry, luck,