[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908) › c7.s1.2 # The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c7.s1.2 The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c7.s1.2 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.s1.2) It would seem possible to present the Vedic gods in the order of their importance, but many are equally, or nearly equally, important. We find nearly a dozen of them engaged in creating the world, and rather more than a dozen engaged in producing the sun, placing it on the sky, or preparing a path for it; under these circumstances it is not easy to rank them.¹ The gods have not all of them come into existence at the same time. Some belong to Indo-European times; others to Indo-Iranian times. Of the rest some come from an earlier, some from a later period of the Veda. If we had all the dates we might try a chronological arrangement pure and simple, but we do not have all the dates. - [Previous: c7.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.s1.1) - [Next: c7.s1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.s1.3) - [Up: c7.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.s1.2) · Pramāṇa