I'm looking to find out about Shiva and Hinduism in general.

A good place to start is reading Upanishads. They're the pinnacle of Vedic spiritual and personally for me a great inspiration.

Also look up the Mahanirvana Tantra.

Vishnu is better if you want a family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaishnavism

Shiva is an ascetic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaivism

But it's important to remember, English is a poor medium of transfer for Hinduism.

Personally, I'd start with the Bhagavad Gita

How was the pre-dravidian Hiduism like ? How much it differ from Hinduism today ?

>>18596583
they cant even poop in the toilet, you really think they mastered the secrets of the cosmos

>>18597288
>Vishnu is better if you want a family.
Shiva is Parameshvara.

>Shiva is an ascetic.
Vamacara is not ascetic.

>Personally, I'd start with the Bhagavad Gita
For Shiva? Kaulajnananirnaya.

>>18597304
We have no clue.

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>>18597307
The ability to poop well and development are inversely related.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978391/

>>18597365
Its due the lack of Neanderthal genes.

>>18597312
So how about the Dravidian folk religion, the non-Vedic form of Hinduism ?

>>18597376
It was already getting ARYAN'D by like 2000bc or thereabouts.

We know Kali was a Dravidian folk goddess from the mountainous interior of the subcontinent.

Beyond that....we have no clue.

The clues are probably in Tantra and local godform worship protocols.

>>18597372
Can neanderthals read comprehensibly?
>Most recently, the Asia IBS prevalence has a higher trend in the affluent cities compared to South Asia.

>>18597392
Do you accept the Aryan Invasion Theory, Ape? I accept there is little opposition to it in linguisitic or anthropological circles, but I am doubtful admittedly for religious reasons. However, have you looked into opponents of the theory, and counter-ideas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Aryans

>>18597470
>Aryan Invasion
>Invasion

No. There's zero archaeological evidence for large scale conquering battles. This was a relatively peaceful and synchretic contact.

>>18597474
Not what I meant. Though the name has "invasion" in it, I doubt anyone thinks there were overt wars involved. At least not since Wheeler. Indo-Aryan Migration Theory, then.

>>18597493
More or less; I mean, even if we accept indigenous Aryans, they still pushed east into the Subcontinent in either case.

I'm at least a bit vindicated in my feelpinions to see some commentators pushing the boundary for the Sintashta culture as far SW as the Eastern Caspian shore, which is where I think this all started, as opposed to in the Indus valley or with the Kurgans.

I mean, the Adronovo horizon pushes out that far and I've long held that BMAC and Yaz, and maybe even Cemetary H were more closely related in terms of cultural outlook than not, despite production differences.

HOW ABOUT TELL THE INDIANS TO QUIT SHITTING INTO THE OCEANS?

>>18597392
>We know Kali was a Dravidian folk goddess from the mountainous interior of the subcontinent.

May not entirely be true, because most of the Indo-Aryan or Indo Iranics as they should be called had a Mother Goddess type themselves, most warrior cultures have a mother goddess who exist as an in-family or Household Goddess who patronizes them specifically.

I suspect Kali was aryanization of the existing mother goddess to add the representation of the fierce woman into the character of godhood.

>>18596583
Read the Shivdhanurveda and slay the malcontent mlecchas and unburden the earth of their sinful existence.