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How many times do Hindus believe that God has already appeared on earth? What are these "people" know as?

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How many times do Hindus believe that God has already appeared on earth? What are these "people" known as?

Well, your facilitator is asking you a bit of a curve-ball question. There is no one single answer to this, as Hindus believe different things about it. As far as I understand the last part of your question, the "people" if we can call them that, are avatars, but not all avatars are necessarily people. In the most general sense, when the essence of a god descends to earth, it manifests in some material form whose presence is apparent to humans - that, after all, is the purpose of the avatar's incarnation. It can take a human form, or an animal, or just about anything of the material world really - but usually either a human or an animal. It's most apparent in Vaishnavism, as I mentioned to you before, because Vishnu is the god that is ...

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