During R.E. week this half-term we are focusing on the concept of CREATION according to the religion of HINDUISM and our response to the question:
Does a beautiful world mean there is a beautiful God? 
Before we can begin to answer this question we needed to consider a few things. Firstly, what do we already know about Hinduism and what do we need to know to help us understand and interpret the Hindu story of creation.
We worked in small groups to learn and share key facts about Hinduism:
- 3rd most popular religion in the world with > 750, 000, 000 followers;
- Originated over 4,000 years ago (world’s oldest existing religion) in Northern India, near the river Indus;
- Name Hindu comes from the river Indus;
- Developed from Brahminism;
- Not a single religion – it is the practises of many different religious groups which originated in India;
- ‘Aum’ is the main symbol which is the sound heard in the deepest meditation and is said ot be the name most suited to God;
- Hinduism is about doing and not just believing;
- Universal soul / God = Brahman who they believe is in everyone = Atman;
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Then we were ready to consider our own beliefs on the creation of our world along with exploring the Hindu creation story.
The Hindu Creation Story
Following this we returned back to our focus question and what it meant for something to be beautiful –
After careful consideration we created our own ‘Diamond 9’ which ordered our beautiful things according to importance to ourselves.
