Tomorrow "The Hindu - Friday Review" may contain an excellent article about Dr.Prabhakara Apteji (Hon.Prof.Sanskrit Vidyapeeta, Tirupati and Sanskrit Research Academy, Melkot. The link as follows:
The vishwakarma community must also open up n document theirs.further while dealing on such deep subjects - the reporter for the article - must have the common sense to be objective and not to interject an author's personal religious views - is hinduism monotheistic or polytheistic or who is the supreme God is defn not the ...subject of a book on Agamas.
I read somewhere, Vishnu gets mentioned in the entire Vedas for less than 100 times.
The concept of trimurti did not exist during in the Vedic times. Hence, Brhama, Shiva and Vishnu (BSV) are not the focal points. Indra, Agni etc gets more importance than BSV. The philosophical component in the Vedic times highlighted a supreme being that they deemed to be unfathomable, incomprehensible etc....and they understood we are all manifestations of that being.
Matter over. AvalO dhan.
I also read somewhere that Vishnu etc attained prominence far later in the course of our Indic culture evolution.