Six streams of Hindu Pantheon
Blog posts Post -1
It was left to Adhi Sankara to identify the six streams of Hindu pantheon. Vaishnavam, Saivam, Saktham, Kowmaram, Ganapathyam and Sowram are the six distinct religious systems within the larger frame work of Hinduism as identified by Adhi Sankara. The
Vaishnavites worship Vishnu; Saivites worship Siva; the worship of Sakthi, the female principle of Saivam is called Saktham; the worship of Muruga or Subramanya is called Kowmaram; the worship of Ganapathy is called Ganapathyam and those who worship the Sun belong to Sowram.
Of the six, the worship of Siva, Sakthi, Muruga and Ganapathy belong the Saiva School while the other two belong to the Vaishnava School. However, Ganapathy worship is common to both Vaishnavites and Saivites in that Ganapathy finds a place in both Vaishnava and Saiva temples. While Vaishnavam, Saivam and Saktham were developed to finer details of philosophy, metaphysics and rituals, the other three schools were
not equally extensively developed.
Source:
http://www.tamil.net/list/2000-05/msg00474.html
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Post-2
The Indus valley religions are the Dravidian religion, Aryanism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, the six fold religions of south India namely Saivaism, Vaishnavism, Gowmaram, Ganapathyam, Saktham and Sowram, and in some places traces of Zoroastrianism. It was when the white people who invaded India, they brought all these religions together
and named it as Hinduism.
DOCTRINE OF TRINITY:
The doctrine of trinity was envisioned in different angles in Hinduism. When the trinity was explained as Father, Holy Spirit and Son in Christianity, some Indian Sages envisioned the Holy Spirit in a female form. According to this group, in a family, if there is a father and a son, naturally there would be a mother in between them. So, they envisioned the Holy Spirit as mother or Sakthi or Power and they explained the trinity as Appan (father), Ammai (mother) and Mahan (Son). They also explained Siva (which means love), Sakthi (power) and Kumarakkadavul (son of God) as Somaskanda. Somaskanda is a Sanskrit word (Sa+Uma+Skanda) which means God who is with Uma (Mother) and Skanda (Son). These are known as Saivaism and Saktham.
Immediately another school of thought emerged. According to it, since a virgin gave birth to a Son by the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit must be of male form, and he was envisioned as Vishnu. They explained all the three in the trinity (Father, Holy Spirit and the Son as Mummurthy or Thirumurthy) in male forms. This has developed into Vaishnavism.
While Saivism denoted Holy Spirit as Sakthi (female form); Vaishnavism denoted Holy Spirit as Vishnu (male form). The root word for Vishnu is Vinn. Vinn and Vaan refers to the sky or firmament. Trinity is explained in Vaishnavism as Siva, Vishnu and Brahma.
If the left half of Siva’s body is portrayed in female form (Sakthi), he is known as ‘Arthanarieswara’ and if the same left half of Siva’s body is portrayed in male form (Vishnu), he is known as ‘Harihara’. Since the left half of Siva’s body is portrayed in male as well as female form, it clearly shows that the left half of Siva’s body is the metaphorism of Holy Spirit in two different angles.
The Son of God is envisioned in four angles in Saivaism and Vaishnavism. The victory over Satan is explained in Kumarakkadavul (Son of God) concept; Death and resurrection is explained in Ganapathy concept; His power of creation is explained in Brahman (creator) concept; Seeing Son of God as the light of the world is explained in Aiyappa concept. People visit Sabarimalai to see light (Mahara Jyothi) in the Aiyappa worship.
Trinity in the Six Fold Religions:
Out of the seven names mentioned above, six have developed into Six-Fold Religions. Saivaism (Father, Mother and Son), Saktham (Siva, Sakthi and Son), Gowmaram (Siva, Sakthi and Son as Murugan), Ganapathyam (Siva, Sakthi and Son as Ganapathy), Vaishnavism (Siva, Vishnu and Son as Brahma), Sowram (Siva, Vishnu and Son
as Aiyappan). The Brahman concept has been corrupted by Aryanism.
Source:
http://thewordoftruthministries.blogspot.com/2008/09/religious-facts.html———-
