re: Avtar in Hinduism?
I didn’t say Avatar was an English word … I said autar is spelt AVATAR in English …
They are currently viewed as a personification of a deity … by the Hindu culture … But my statement is that I feel the origins of these figures were not as gods but as representatives of God
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I’m not reinventing either … It is a way to consolidate two cultures - the approach is to find common ground not difference … Let me see what I can find in the way of references.