India

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India has several mighty rivers. One is the ancient Ganges River or Ganga. India is one of the largest lands. The Ganges begins at almost 1,312 ft. high in the Himalayas. It flows from a glacier at a place called Gangotri. It flows from there to and across the northern plains, through the villages, towns and cities. After it flows for about 1,559 miles, the river finally reaches the coast and drains into the Indian Ocean.
Many of the people who live in India are Hindus. They follow a religion known to us as Hinduism. There are seven great rivers in India that the Hindus believe are holy. The holiest river of them all is the Ganges. Every human, animal and plants on earth needs water as a vital source to live. Many people in India believe that a mighty river that brings so much life wherever it is flowing is a symbol of the power of God, who above all gives life to all things.
The first great civilization in India grew up around the Indus River roughly about five thousand years ago. Fifteen hundred years later, people called Aryans started coming to live there. Aryans is a race of people who lived in India during the ancient times. Over the next thousand years, each and every group beliefs started to mix together to form the Hindu religion. Brahman is the supreme spirit that most Hindus believe in, and Brahman is neither male nor female. Most of the Hindus also believe that Brahman creates everything and that Brahman is in everything.
The spirit inside a person is his or her own soul. Hindus believe that eventually when a person dies, the soul moves on and takes on a new life as a different person or maybe even as animal or plant. Being born again is called reincarnation and through reincarnation, a soul lives many different lives. Since the Hindus believe that they can be reborn as an animal, they treat all kinds of animals kindly. And many of the Hindus don’t eat meat either, because of that.
The great god Shiva, who helpe...