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It's a struggle between Hindus who want to reject any connection to the Indo-European steppe culture that conquered Indian to begin with and wanting to bring into prominence the deities and traditions that were affixed to the prior Ancient Ancestral South Indians civilisation that really do seem to have little in common with the Aryan Vedic scripture.. A very notable example is Jagannath who's worshipped as a trinity with his brother, Balabhadra and sister, Subhadra. particular popular in Odia as an aspect of Purushottama and Para Brahman (roughly akin to the concept of creation and supreme godhead). However Vaishnava and Shaiva/Shakta Hindus consider Jagganath either a subordinate aspect of Vishnu as solidity owing to his "lineage" as an ancient deity still respected or as a force of nature bestowed to Shiva as annihilating attachment. He just looks bizarre compared to any other depiction of Indian deities. He's very simplistic looking owing to his icons presumed creation by primitive peoples before the Aryans came. Jaggannath is worshipped by having a fuck-off massive wagon driven towards his temple covered in offerings to be burned. People would literally throws themselves against it risking death to be closer to him which the British would create the term Juggernaut seeing this insanity happen before of Indians unable to stop this unstoppable presence.Isn't the Bhagavad Gita considered made up completely by later writers? IIRC, it's not even remotely related to early Indian religion.
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