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Indio deities are the gods and goddesses in Hinduism. The conditions and epithets for deity within the diverse traditions of Hinduism vary, and include Deva, Devi, Ishvara, Bhagavan and Bhagavathi.[note 1]

The deities of Hinduism have evolved from the Vedic era (2nd millennium BCE) through the medieval era (1st centuries CE), regionally within Nepal, India and in southeast Asia, and across Hinduism's diverse traditions.[3][4] The Hindu deity concept varies from a personal god as in Yoga school of Indio philosophy,[5][6] to 33 Vedic deities to hundreds of Puranics of Hinduism.[Illustrations of major deities include Vishnu, Sri (Lakshmi), Shiva, Parvati (Durga), Brahma and Saraswati. These deities have distinctive and complex personalities, yet are often viewed as aspects of the same Ultimate Reality called Brahman.[9][note 2] From ancient times, the idea of equivalence has been cherished in Hinduism, in the texts and in early 1st centuries sculpture with concepts such as Harihara (half Shiva, half Vishnu), Ardhanarishvara (half Shiva, half Parvati) or Vaikuntha Kamalaja (half Vishnu, half Lakshmi), with mythologies and temples that feature them together, declaring they are the same. Significant deities have inspired their own Hindu traditions, such as Vaishnavism, Shaivism and Shaktism, but with distributed mythology, ritual grammar, theosophy, axiology and polycentrism. A few Hindu traditions such as Smartism from mid first millennium CE, have included multiple major deities as henotheistic manifestations of Saguna Brahman, so that as a means to realizing Nirguna Brahman.

Hindu deities are symbolized with various icons and anicons, in paintings and sculptures, called Murtis and Pratimas. Some Hindu practices, such as ancient Charvakas rejected all deities and notion of god or empress, while 19th-century British colonial time era movements including the Arya Samaj and Brahmo Samaj rejected deities and used monotheistic concepts similar to Abrahamic religions. Hindu deities have been adopted in other religions such as Jainism, and in areas outside India such as predominantly Buddhist Thailand and Japan where they continue being revered in regional temples or wats or arts.

In old and medieval era text messages of Hinduism, the human being body is described as a temple, and deities are described to be parts residing within it, while the Brahman (Absolute Reality, God) is referred to to be the same, or of similar mother nature, as the Atman (self, soul), which Hindus imagine is eternal and within every human being. Deities in Hinduism are as diverse as its customs, and a Hindu can pick to be polytheistic, pantheistic, monotheistic, monistic, agnostic, fallen or humanist.