Vedic Mythology c7.s7.1

c7.s7.1

A. Besides the phenomena and forces of nature, mostly aerial and celestial, and the earth itself (§ 34), various natural features of the earth's surface, as well as artificial objects, are treated as deities in the RV. It is the worship of inanimate things chiefly regarded as useful to man¹. It is not pantheistic, since each object is regarded as a separate divinity², but is rather fetishistic in its character.