The Supreme

continued--Mind, thought aided by intelligence went on raising question after question to seek probable cause for the occurrence of events which used to come before the early humans when they became homo sapiens. They used to see the nature occurring phenomena like rising and setting of sun, moon, stars in the sky, strong breeze, storm, rains, flashes in the sky, thunderbolts, snow, blizzards, large sea waves, wood-fire, water-fire, earthquake etc and tried to find out as to why such things were happening or who were causing them to occur. They used to see more other things in the plant and animal world and many of the natural creations raised lots of questions in human minds. They first tried to locate as to the person/authority who was causing the phenomena but they could not find or see such person or persons over a long period of time. When such pursuits to trace the authorities in visible form failed, there dawned in them that there must be some very powerful person or authority in invisible form and was responsible to cause the events. They seemed to rely on such conceptions in view of their limited knowledge which did not give adequate depth to expose nature and its creations. They thus happened to discover that the authority was very powerful and that they should revere ,adore and propitiate so that the authority was pleased not to do any harm to them.
This person or authority so conceived by the early humans is no other than god who was given charge of one natural event say rain-the in-charge god was rain god, another was fire god, another was water god, another was thunderbolt god, so on and so forth. Creation of gods continued --love god, war god, beauty god ( god includes goddess too ), different food and drink gods, gods of different human passions etc. One may find the actual names of such gods and goddesses in the mythology of different ethnic races spread in the different continents of the globe. Images were formed and placed in the buildings known as temples where people used to adore and worship them. Such temples some of which are still there are regarded as heritage buildings or sites and preserved under international, national and local maintenance scheme. Some countries destroyed these relics being considered as contrary to their belief and conceptions. It is really a matter of deep regret that human history be destroyed in modern age !                                    ( to be continued  )