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| | Hinduism Article, Hinduism Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | While some censuses hold worshippers of one form or another of Vishnu (known as Vaishnavs) to be at 80% andthose of Shiva (called Shaivaites) and Shakti at the remaining 20%, suchfigures are perhaps misleading. |
| | The vast majority of Hindus worship many gods as varicolored forms of the same prism of Truth.Among the most popular are Vishnu (as Krishna or Rama), Shiva, Devi (the Mother as many female deities, such as Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kali and Durga), Ganesha, Skanda and Hanuman. |
| | Worship of the said deities is often done through the aid of pictures or icons (murti) which are said not to be Godthemselves but conduits for the devotee's consciousness, markers for the human soul that signify the ineffable and illimitablenature of the love and grandeur of God. |
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