Response to reading

Response from The Ganges
In my readings I read about how important the Ganges river is to the people of India. This is more than just a normal river to the Indians, it is a sacred river that is said to flow from the heavens. The Ganges is said to flow upon the matted hair of the god, Lord Shiva, into a cave in the Himalayas. Some of the Indian people don't like this idea because they think it arises from the foot of the great god Vishnu. This causes some conflict between the Shaivites(the people who believe in the Shiva theory) and the Vaishnavites(people who believe in the Vishnu theory). In the end they both see the river as sacred and worship it. To the people of India this river "destroys the poison of illusion," she "brings about the continuance of peace,"she is the "embodiment of the Supreme Spirit," and the "mother of what is alive." This river also plays an important part in the agricultural part of India, if the river is to low then their crops won't get enough water but, if it is to high then it will flood their land and ruin their crops. So unless the River is at a good lever the crops will do fine. The Flooding also occurs in many of the cities around the river because the land is so flat.

Reading from our English Book
In our books we learned about the first signs of Indian culture and even in 2500 B.C. they still worshiped the god, Shiva. The that civilization was destroyed by the Aryan invaders. We also read about the Vedas which is a sacred book and how they wrote many epics. The main religion their is Hinduism but, eventually Buddhism and Muslim was introduced to the country.