Methodology...

The problem with picking something of this magnitude is that there isn't one religion, one God that is worshipped. Even though all religions put you in the same direction, and the journey is more or less similar; there are still vast differences between followers of different sects. Whom do you believe?

A good researcher would give equal weightage to each sect and will try to follow all taking one at a time without putting any bias on any one religion. The first assumption I will make in my research is that I am a good researcher. Period.

Now, the problem is not only different religions, but also those who have different beliefs despite being in the same religion. I have watched the Hindu mythology very closely (although my knowledge is still premature) and there are more Gods than there are days in a year. You have different gods/goddesses for different activities - a god of knowledge, a god of sex, a goddess of money, etc. There are so many gods/goddesses that finding out about each of these would become so difficult and time consuming that I may forget what i started out for.

So I would not try and focus on all the gods, but look at the different mythologies and beliefs in general. I plan to start with the Hindu mythology as I have already spoken about it in this space follwed by Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and others (except scientology). I know this is a time consuming exercise and probably would not be finished by the end of time. But as they say - your work defines you. And I consider myself an explorer; so if it takes me end of time to be one, so be it.

A quick snapshot of what will follow this post. Hindu mythology has three major Gods -

1. Brahma, the creator
2. Vishnu, the preserver
3. Shiva, the destroyer

The next post will be on Brahma. Apparently, there is only one or two Brahma temples in the world. Now I do not quite know the reason for this, considering the fac than vishnu and shiva have millions and millions of temples but I intend to find out. One of these Brahma temples (or the only temple) is in Pushkar in Rajasthan (India) and I am visiting that place over this weekend. I will only update this page once I have more information from the locals there and the believers I already know. Apart from what I mentioned above, I do not know anything else about Brahma except that he had four heads - one for each direction.

More to follow...