Who are the Hindu gods?

Answer 1

The Hindu gods are Annapurna, Ganesh, Maya, Balrama, Garuda, Ram, Bhuvaneshwari, Hanuman, Sarawati, Brahma, Indra, Shakti, Buddha, Kali, Shiva, Dhanwantari, Karlikay, Sita, Dhumavati, Krishna, Vamana, Durga, Kurma, Vishnu, Ganga, Laksmi
Hinduism is a polytheistic religion. Hindus believe in many, many, many gods.

Answer 2

Hinduism preaches that God is "nirguna brahma", or beyond qualities. In that sense, it does not believe in Gods. But during the renaissance of the faith, 'Sagunopasana', or worship of forms with qualities attributed to it, became popular. Adwaitha, that is non-dualism is the basis of Hindu philosophy. Adwaitha advocates that the observer and the observed are not separate entities but a reflection of the same truth. In that sense, all manifestation is God.

This being the underlying principle of the faith, a truth beyond manifestation, which yogis meditate upon, the other end of the spectrum is the practice of pan-theism, where there are any number of "gods". The following paragraph explains it.

To start with, there is the holy trinity. Brahma, Vishnu and Siva.

Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer and Siva, the destroyer (has a lot of relevance in modern particle physics, where destruction is actually a process of creation)

While Brahma and Siva do not have any manifestations, Vishnu, the sustainer recurs in the universe as various nodes of evolution. It starts with Fish, then evolves as the amphibian tortoise, wild boar, then a half-man, half animal, before attaining human form of the dwarf man. Thereafter it is the history of Man through its development, from the cave man (Parashrama with the axe), the hunter in the metal age(Sri Rama with the bow and arrow), the agrarian (BalaRama with the plough) The complete Man (Srikrishna) and finally the symbol of the sword man on the horse, who will cause the end of the world(no negative connotations to the word'end') Some believe that the last avatar, the sword, with which you can cut and be cut, is the computer or artificial intelligence.

There are consorts and children of the manifestations of Vishnu, who are also worshipped and around whom stories are woven to elucidate the complex theories of the faith, example karma theory.

What we think of as "Hinduism" is actually only one "path" of Hinduism known as Brahman. In India there are as many as 330 MILLION dieties attributed to Hinduism according to "Living Religions, 7th edition. Fisher"