Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s10.t3.28

v1.c7.s10.t3.28

Firstly, deities are no longer confined to directly visible natural phenomena or objects, and instead, there appear some gods that are created by human imagination (reforming a natural object in one’s mind) or abstraction. These gods do not have any direct equivalent in Nature, and include among others Asura (God of demons or spirits), Raksa (God of the un-righteous) and Yama (God of death). There are also deities of confidence, love, language and the like.