Agreed Hidus pray to Stones,Snake etc.Prototyping is a common form of scaling up.Hindus percieved stone as God and not God as stone becos, they felt that infinite blissful truth cannot be comprehended by a limited mind and so to get our mind fixed, idols were used. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was so fixed with kali that his guru had to chide him to focus on going from form to formless. Snakes represents ego and also our consciouness follow a wave pattern which is much like snake.Vishnu lies on a snake bed which shows He has suppressed the ego. Shiva wears snakes as Graland which represents that He is an ultimate form of consciousness. Now where and No one in hidnsu ever came back and re visited Gita or Vedas. It is called Sanarthana dharma- Sustainable truth beyond time, caste and creed.
Worshipping monkey is an amazing stuff. Mind is like a monkey ever volatile and vagary. But when the same mind is focused on God and Good work ti becomes an object of worship. So is the case with Bull which is Shiva's vehicle. Look at it in another way, it also shows what a good friehndship can do to you. Snake is pernicious but when it befriends God, it is vernerable. We listed 3 crs of God and infact that was the population then. In hinduism every one is God- ISA VASYAM ITHAM SARVAM YETH KINCHIT JAGATH. God pervades and permeates in all being. Wats up, for all you know we all in hnduism is considered as God the only problem is we have not realised it yet. Hindusim endeavo