The interesting thing is that one culture can see this as fiction while most Hindus, without a second thought, can walk into a temple with multiple deities, bow down and offer prayer and worship with devotion treating that deity as much like a person as you and me.
There are families in Madison that do not believe in a supreme being, there are families that believe in a Goddess rather than a God, and there are families that believe in a spirit world populated with multiple deities".
ME, MYSELF AND IRENE -- Jim Carrey as a state trooper with multiple personalities.
Is it monotheistic (worshiping only one deity), polytheistic (worshiping multiple deities), pantheistic (worshiping the universe), or atheistic (believing in no deities)?
Michael Langan's experimental film Choros features Terah Maher as a dancer whose moves are echoed across the screen, trailing behind her so she appears to multiply before your eyes, at times appearing like a Hindu deity with multiple limbs.
This is an extremely volatile situation with multiple state actors in play.
By depicting the deity with multiple heads, arms, or eyes or with animal features, the image, or icon, represents the deity's many different aspects and powers.
Others portray so-called wrathful deities: muscular, blue-skinned monsters with multiple heads, arms and eyes who stomp on small humans and demons while grasping to their chests half-naked female consorts who appear to be in states of sexual ecstasy.
He relies most heavily on the "state oracle," a deity called Nechung, who communicates through a human medium, usually a monk.
For example, names state that deities "show favour" to or "love" a child or its parents.
Life is their song, a lark in a car, with the Deity himself co-writing.
