An “ending” or “the end of the world” may have held the image of the power of gods or
faith waning and an evil one wielding great power. Some may have viewed it as the white
and glowing things being blotted out with darkness.

But in some religions, the gods themselves descended to the world and took part in wars.

Shiva, the Indian god of destruction, may have been the most well-known, but there was
another god that was just as popular.

Vishnu was the god of preservation.

Brahma, the god of creation, was born from him and he worked to preserve and develop
the world that Shiva would destroy. To do this, he used Avatars.

The term “Avatar” may have been best known in its use on the internet, but Vishnu would
switch between ten different physical bodies while ending the different wars and
calamities on the earth.

Those who worshiped Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva were divided on who the central god
was, but they all generally agreed that the three of them formed a trinity that
demonstrated its power as the primary god.

In other words, this “ending” did not call in a core of chaos or evil.

It was incomplete and its form was greatly changed, but this beam of light was on the level
of a top-ranking god.

-Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 10 Chapter 13 Part 5