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That was true of Purva MImasa which is one of the Brahmanical Hindu religions. However, if we assume that Vedic Hinduism is closer to it's living relatives like Nuristani religion, a religion practiced by Indigenous people from Afghanistan we can still this view where the gods are both natural forces and immanent as beings but also abstract. Pic is of an effigy. In fact, the general trajectory after encountering Islam and the west was a movement towards more literal views, metaphysical idealism in Vedanta basically allowed for Puranic literature to be understood differently in the long term.