It’s the season of love & happiness again. Come winter & you can literally hear the jingle bells ringing all around. Christmas brings with it festive cheer & a chance for families to get together.

It’s natural for humans to visualize everything no matter how abstract the thing might me. Love, hatred & devotion all find their visual representation in the human mind. No wonder we are so attracted to beautiful pictures & images. When it comes to nature, we try & capture beautiful sunsets or scenic locales, we even try to capture memories of time well spent with out dear ones. When it comes to devotion we have the pictures of Jesus to gain strength from.

The fulcrum of religion lies perhaps in the powerful imagery that it bestows. Be it the mighty temples, or the pictures of Jesus in Churches, God is best bestowed upon by an image or a symbol upon your side. These symbols are generally taken for granted as the best method to invoke one’s faith in the religion, or to the extreme, to identify one’s religion and God. In Hinduism, it’s the beautiful crafted temples and statues of Hindu idols. Islam has their rituals and rigid procedures to follow.