India, the land of Hindus, is land of diverse cultures, religious faiths and languages. The dialect changes almost every 10 kilometers and the language changes almost every 100 kilometers. Thus, across the land, different people called the Deities with different names, which all became synonymous to the original word/s or names.
There are thousands of gods. But they are all different forms of one sole god, Brahma. Some examples are, Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesh, Krishna, Lakshmi
Idol worship is the main means of worship for Hindus. Idols of gods are made and kept in temples and shrines and people worship them
Certainly, Many people believe that Hinduism is Religion of thousands of Gods. But they do not realize that all these god refer to one Supreme God & are direct forms of the Supreme god himself.
Egyptian gods tended to take the form of animals.
When gods were worshiped, priests wore headdresses depecting the gods in animal form. That is why many gods are seen as half human half animal.
Most pre-Christian & pre-Muslim religions were polytheistic, worshipping thousands of gods & goddesses.
They can take on any form they wish.
Hindu beleivers believe in Hinduism, they also believe in many gods, like shiva the god of destroing desses, and they also believe in going to the holy temple "the hinu Mandir" to have anual festivals and prey to the people who died and there divinities.
The bible has thousands of promises in the bible, some are to be fulfilled still.
No. Jesus came thousands of years After the Greeks.
The three main hindu gods are called, Brahma Vishnu & Mahesha. All the rest gods are either their sons or different forms.
It depends on which mythology or lore you speak of, there are many ancient cultures that had gods and goddesses, they number in some cases well into the thousands.