My Family Heritage Analysis

A family's heritage is their sense of culture and traditions. Every family has their own unique values and beliefs. I created a flag that encompasses words, colors, and symbols to represent my family’s heritage.
In my flag, I used the words educated, traditional, creative, and ambitious to represent my family. I said educated because people in my family have grown up to be very successful. I have had members that were famous lawyers, teachers, and doctors. Creative because everyone in my family does a fine art. My dad plays the indian drum, my mom dances, my brother plays piano, and I dance, sing, play the violin, and code. I also have uncles that have grown up to be famous singers in India. I used ambitious
My colors are yellow, red, and
When fire burns something, it doesn’t discriminate. The same way, death doesn’t discriminate from the rich and the poor. Fire also symbolizes sacrifice. In a puja, or prayer ritual, when a large fire is set to flame, there are many offerings burned in it. These colors are the most significant to Hinduism. The three symbols I used are the trishula, the OM sign, and an elephant. These signs are special to my culture because they are important in Hinduism. My family is very traditional, and even though my family immigrated to America, all the customs of Hinduism are still celebrated and adhered to. The trishula is a weapon carried by many of the gods in my culture, namely Shiva. He is said to be the most powerful of the main three gods (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) and in the divide between Hindus, where a family believes that one of either Vishnu or Shiva is the most powerful, my family is Shaivite, or oriented around Shiva. Furthermore, the temple that is our kula daivam (ancestral God or family deity) is the Manapullikavu Bhagavathi, which is a Kali temple, who is the female incarnation of Shiva, and also carries a trisula. The OM sign is central to the concept of Hinduism. It is believed to be the first