ShaktismShaktism is the denomination of Hinduism with the most followers. The original pre-Aryan cult of the fertility goddess contains many features which could later be recognized in Hinduism and particularly in the Shaktism denomination. Shaktism is undoubtedly one of the three directions with the bloodiest cult. We know from a Chinese pilgrim who visited India in 629 and 645 that humans were sacrificed to Durga and that the pilgrim himself was almost sacrificed as part of the ritual. Until the 20th century, widow sacrifice was still a ritual found within religion. These are believed to be relics of the past sacrifice cult in which members of the lower castes traveled across India and were murdered to satisfy the bloodthirsty Kali. While being a cruel deity, Shakti is also the “creator and life-giving divine mother”. In the Skanda Purana, the greater Mahapurana, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts, the female deity, Shakti, is described as the most powerful of deities, the Great Divine Mother, because the other gods worship her. The characteristic of the three main faiths of Hinduism is that their God is precisely the most important. In the Skanda Purana, the female deity conquers a demon after drinking the finest wine available, made from the blood of animals sacrificed to her. It is thus linked to one of the symbols of fertility, namely wine; which in turn becomes a justification for blood sacrifices. In addition to representing the cult of fertility, in the form of a sacrificial cult and in one of the side branches also in the form of desire, particularly sexual (The Chakrapuja ritual), the mother divinity is also affected by... .. middle of paper ...... are described as human ideals or forbidden desires. It would then be possible with Xenophanes, Karl Marx and the majority of other modern critics of religion to arrive at the conclusion that there is no God. . But even if it were possible to come to this conclusion, it would not change the fact that the concept of God is still revered throughout the world. The Hindu conception of God can also be characterized by its pronounced tolerance towards other gods and the conclusion would be that the core of the religion is that the individual seeks a personal experience with God and the different gods, "as various rivers arise from various mountains and flow in different directions, east, west, north and south, and yet finally return and mix their water with the flowing sea, thus leading all the different religions to you, God” ( Radhakrishnan 1834-1886)