Weda's Animism

North Maluku has 37 languages, including Vedic. Vedic religion refers to the ideology and religious practices of the Indo-Aryan language group in ancient India after 1500 BC. The Indo-Aryan language is a branch of the Indo-European language group, which was born from the Sintashta culture and continued to develop until it finally became the Andronovo culture, and is believed to have originated from the Kurgan culture that grew from the Central Asian steppes.

The early Vedic period is most often proposed to have begun in the 2nd millennium BC and is believed to have ended in 500 BC. The period between 800 and 200 BC was the formative period for Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.

Adi Shankara, an 8th-century AD philosopher who unified the mainstream thought of Hinduism, interpreted the Vedas as non-dualist / single. The word Brahmanism was coined by Gonçalo Fernandes Trancoso in the 16th century & is related to the metaphysical concept of Brahman, which developed from post-Vedic ideas during the late Vedic period. According to Heinrich von Stietencron, in Western publications in the 19th century, the Vedas were believed to be different from modern Hinduism.

In the 20th century, a better understanding began to emerge. The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns to the Gods, most notably to Indra, Agni & soma, the sacred drink of the Indo-Iranians. According to the German professor Axel Michaels, the ancient Vedic Gods and Goddesses began to be mentioned less but not ignored & local cults were assimilated into the Vedic Brahmanas as Hinduism.