All Hindu informants referred to pigs as deities. They considered pigs to be sacred animals to be raised and worshiped. According to pig raisers, in the Hindu religion, slaughtering pigs is considered the best offering to satisfy God while performing religious rituals (puja).
Pigs are worshipful animals according to Hinduism, since pigs contain the features of Lord Varaha, an avatar of Lord Vishnu.
After taking the Matsya (fish) avatar and Kurma (tortoise) avatar, Lord Vishnu transformed into a boar to save Mother Earth from drowning in the cosmic ocean. Therefore, he took his third avatar, Varaha to protect the planet Earth from a demon named Hiranyaksha, who had stolen the planet.
After Hiranyakashipu's younger brother Hiranyaksha's death at the hands of the Varaha avatar of Vishnu, Hiranyakashipu comes to hate Vishnu.
Shiva's mount is the bull Nandi below Shiva.
Shiva engaged him in battle and pierced his heart, but Andhaka was able to recover and strike Shiva with his mace. The blood that fell on the ground from the wound gave rise to the eight forms of Bhairava.
Varaha, (Sanskrit: “Boar”) third of the 10 incarnations (avatars) of the Hindu god Vishnu. When a demon named Hiranyaksha dragged the earth to the bottom of the sea, Vishnu took the form of a boar in order to rescue it.
Varaha (Sanskrit: वराह, Varāha) is an avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu, in the form of a wild boar. Varaha is generally listed as third in the Dashavatara, the ten principal avatars of Vishnu.
Varaha is Krishna appearing in the extraordinary form of a gigantic boar—gigantic enough to carry the Earth on His tusks.
Moccus is a Celtic god who is identified with Mercury. He is the boar- or swine-god of the continental Celtic tribe of Lingones. Moccus was invoked as the protector of boar hunters and warriors. Boar meat was sacred among the ancient Celts, and features in accounts of feasts in Irish mythology.
So what is the Pigs of God festival? To put it briefly, it is a cultural and religious event in Taiwan that involves animal sacrifice and growing a pig to a size of extremely unhealthy proportions in order to offer it to the gods and of course, during Ghost Month, to the ghosts wandering around Taiwan.
In the story in Vedic Hindu mythology, the boar is an avatar of Brahma and has raised the earth from the primeval waters during creation. In the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahabharata and the Purāṇas, another boar (Varaha) is an avatar of Vishnu that kills Hiranyaksha and saves Bhumi.
Sharabha kills Narasimha first and then kills Varaha, allowing Vishnu to reabsorb the energies of both his forms.
It is well known that Hindus do not consume cattle meat, even though they have no prohibition against pork; the Chinese keep pigs as primary domestic animals and a main protein source, while Jews have a prohibition against porcine.
Hindus, who make up about 80 per cent of India's 1.4 billion people, are not prohibited from eating pork, but many consider the meat impure and this has made restaurants wary about putting it on their menus.
It is also true that there are some Hindu deities who are offered meat. Most famously, goats are regularly offered to the Hindu goddess Kali. Meat offerings are also not uncommon in Nepal, a majority Hindu nation. But the vast majority of food offerings to Hindu deities today are vegetarian in nature.
The pig as a sacred animal seems to belong to the early goddess religions, about which our knowledge is far from complete -- but carvings and other artifacts found all across what is now western Europe indicate that the pig was an aspect of the Great Goddess, associated with fertility, the moon, and the season cycles ...
In Hinduism, the cow is considered a sacred animal and symbolizes wealth, strength, and motherly love. It is believed to be the earthly representative of the divine and nourishing Mother Goddess, who represents fertility and bountifulness. Their milk is believed to have a purifying effect on human bodies.
The pig: an impure animal
Like beef, pork is also forbidden in Hinduism. However, unlike the sacred cow, the pig represents impurity and filth, because it eats our wasted food. This is considered to be particularly impure and soiled as, for example, it has been touched or come into contact with saliva.
According to Hindu tradition, the god Vishnu has descended to earth on many occasions, each time in a different form known as an avatar. In standard lists, the first four avatars of Vishnu are animals: a fish, a tortoise, a wild boar, and a lion.
The historic Buddha (Sanskrit: बुद्ध, lit. ''the enlightened one'') or Gautama Buddha, is considered the ninth avatar among the ten major avatars of the god Vishnu, according to the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism.
Brahma the creator
In the beginning, Brahma sprang from the cosmic golden egg and he then created good and evil and light and dark from his own person. He also created the four types: gods, demons, ancestors and men, the first of whom was Manu. Brahma then made all the other living creatures upon the earth.
Some have argued that Lord Shiva is not Allah. Christians believe that Jesus is the true God. The god of Hinduism is Satan, all the gods in Hinduism are man-made gods. Similarly, Muslims ignore the fact that Allah is the true God, the God of Hinduism or Shiva is not Allah.
Indra also called Śakra, the supreme god, is the first of the 33, followed by Agni.