He greatly affected the western philosophy on Indian music. Before his sitar playing with the Beatles, very few people on the Western hemisphere knew about Indian music.
Well personally I don't like the whole belief factor. I think that belief in anything from religion to government makes you blind. Besides most religions didn't actually begin with the dawn of man...
Like many Aboriginal groups in Canada, the Haida believe there was a time when great animals and birds lived on the earth. The Haida believe that these great beings are the spirits of the smaller...