Shiva

Later Shaiva reception identifies the three-eyed power with Shiva.

The panchakshara, na mah shi va ya, is central to Shaiva theology and practice.

Every vachana she wrote is signed with the name Chennamallikarjuna, the lord white as jasmine, a local form of Shiva.

The story attached to Annapurna's temple at Varanasi has Shiva himself come to her with a begging bowl, having taught that the world is illusion, and been answered that hunger is not.

This source names Shiva directly: "and its presiding deity is Rudra (Shiva)."

This source names Shiva directly: "the festival stages the Hindu myth of Shiva roused from yogic sleep by Shakti, who then dances the universe and time into being, with performances read as tracing the soul's passage through the..."

This source names Shiva directly: "Parva festival's Shaiva mythology, Shiva roused by Shakti and the four cosmic ages, its solar calendar spring timing, and its bond with Seraikela Chhau."

This source names Shiva directly: "beginnings, and its presiding deity is Shiva (Rudra) in fierce form, or Kali."

Because Ganga's fall from heaven would have shattered the earth, Shiva caught her descent in his matted hair, which is why she is shown streaming from his head.

Shiva received the falling river in his matted hair so that the impact would not shatter the earth, and Kashi is his city.

This source names Shiva directly: "hatha manuals, and its claim that Shiva taught eighty four, not for whether those numbers or techniques are historically older than this specific text."

This source names Shiva directly: "Later Puranic and Tantric retelling casts her as Shiva's fierce consort, dancing in the cremation ground in a rage checked, in one widely told scene, only when Shiva throws himself beneath her..."

The gods send Kamadeva to break Shiva's meditation so a son can be conceived to kill the demon Taraka; Shiva opens his third eye and burns Kamadeva to ash on the spot.

This source names Shiva directly: "holds to have been revealed by Shiva, and it is counted among the earliest and most authoritative of the group."

Shaiva cult, expressed in the linga installed at the summit of the temple mountains, was the dominant royal religion for most of the empire.

This source names Shiva directly: "(an Ashtami), presided over by Rudra (Shiva)."

This source names Shiva directly: "(a Chaturdashi), presided over by Shiva (Rudra) in fierce form, or Kali."

This source names Shiva directly: "with the Pradosha worship of Shiva at dusk."

This source names Shiva directly: "presented as a dialogue between Shiva and the Goddess Parvati on the philosophy, ethics and ritual framework of Kaula practice."

Her vakhs teach the non dual Shaivism of Kashmir, in which Shiva is the single consciousness the world expresses.

This source names Shiva directly: "Tantra presented as a dialogue between Shiva and the Goddess in which she asks how liberation is to be attained in the present, degenerate age (Kali Yuga), and it is unusual among Tantras for its..."

This source names Shiva directly: "figure as a prototype of the Hindu god Shiva, first proposed in 1928, is a report-era interpretive claim that later archaeology and Indology have not confirmed."

This source names Shiva directly: "cut down by the goddess Kali after Shiva rules that a woman falls outside the boon's protection."

Pashupati, the lord of animals, is the form of Shiva the temple is for.

The tallest of the three main shrines is his.

This source names Shiva directly: "Hindu gods including Durga, Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma as she pursues the demon lord Mahabalasura."

A saying captures the relationship: Shiva without Shakti is shava, a corpse, since pure consciousness without its energy is motionless; Shakti gives Shiva the capacity to create, sustain and dissolve.

Shani is regarded as a form and a devotee of Shiva, and his hardships are understood as the just reward of deeds ripening under Shiva's own law of karma.

This source names Shiva directly: "Kartikeya (Skanda), the warrior son of Shiva."

This source names Shiva directly: "This bronze sculpture depicts Shiva as Nataraja, the Lord of Dance, performing the anandatandava, the dance of bliss, one of the most recognized images of Hindu sacred art and the form under which..."

This source names Shiva directly: "scholarly translation and study of the Shiva Sutras, a foundational text of nondual Kashmir Shaiva yoga."

One of the twelve jyotirlingas.

This source names Shiva directly: "creator deity, identified with Rudra-Shiva, as the single highest reality behind the impersonal Brahman of earlier texts, making it a foundational document for later theistic Vedanta and for..."

The shrine is a Shiva temple and its linga was the object destroyed.

This source names Shiva directly: "seal as an early depiction of a proto-Shiva figure in yogic posture surrounded by animals."

This source names Shiva directly: "and is associated with the worship of Shiva on Pradosha."

Worn coiled around Shiva's neck as a garland; Shiva swallows the poison Vasuki vomits during the churning.

Ayyappan's own description: "held to be the son of Shiva and of Vishnu in the female form Mohini." Source already cited on the entity.

Ganesha's own description: "He is the son of Shiva and Parvati." Source already cited on the entity.

Kartikeya's own description: "second son of Shiva and Parvati." Source already cited on the entity.

Confirmed card in the deck's corrected multi-pantheon scope (Hindu); jrriveracorner.wordpress.com full card list, corroborated independently for this figure.

Ardhanarishvara is Shiva and Parvati in a single body divided down the vertical axis, the right side male with matted hair, ash and the bull.

Bhairava is Shiva in his terrifying aspect; the Puranas explain him as arising when Shiva severs the fifth head of Brahma.

Dakshinamurti is Shiva as the teacher, seated beneath a banyan facing south, teaching the identity of the individual self and the absolute in silence.

Nataraja is Shiva as lord of the dance, the standing bronze form developed in the Tamil south under the Cholas.

Parvati's own description: "the consort of Shiva." Source already cited on the entity.

Sati's own description: "the first wife of Shiva." Source already cited on the entity.

Daksha excludes his son in law Shiva from his sacrifice, the insult that draws Virabhadra to destroy the rite and behead him.

The Amarnath cave shrine is dedicated to Shiva, its naturally forming ice lingam venerated as a manifestation of the god.

The Kashi Vishwanath Temple houses one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, the temple's name itself meaning Lord (Vishwanath) of Varanasi, an epithet of Shiva.

Kedarnath houses one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Shiva and is among the most revered Shaiva pilgrimage sites in the Himalayas.

Mahakaleshwar houses one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, self-manifested lingas of Shiva; the name means Lord of Time, an epithet of Shiva.

Ramanathaswamy temple is dedicated to Shiva and is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga sites, tied by tradition to Rama's own worship of Shiva here.

Somnath houses the first of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Shiva and is among the most storied Shaiva pilgrimage sites in India.

Mala beads of rudraksha seed carry an association with Shiva.

Lingayatism is a Shiva devotional tradition centered on the ishtalinga worn on the body.

Shiva is held to be present in Varanasi as Vishwanath, lord of all, and to have founded the city.