Prepare a document that’s equivalent to a 5-minute presentation. It should answer the following questions:
- Which deity have you chosen?
- What is their role in Hindu thought? Historically and today
- What are the historic sources that tell us about this deity? (specific texts, archaeological finds, iconographical representations in Hinduism)
- When do these sources date to?
- Is there a particular geographical location/ time of the year, etc. that the deity is associated with?
- Narrate a story associated with the deity, giving the primary source for the story. This may include a discussion of the deities powers, the mantras associated with them, the festivities dedicated to them, the kinds of worship and reasons for worship to the deity, and their iconographical representation.
- Provide an image for the deity (and provide the provenance of the image = not random webpage)
- Bibliography. Give the academic sources for your presentation (at least three sources that are scholarl
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