Happy people are all the same, and unhappy people have their own misfortunes. Even the gods are no exception, even if the family discord is still being held in the green hat, how can it be that in public places such as temples and sacrifices, they are worshipped and visited in the form of linga (male parts)?
The first time I knew the interesting name of Shiva was through the Japanese anime "Three Eyes" (Takada Yusan Shenzuo), now in retrospect, I can know that many foreign mythological characters are actually through Japanese manga, such as "Saint Seiya", "Holy Legend", "Peacock King", "Diablo", etc., many of which anime for the use and height of Indian mythology are amazing (such as "Sky Wars"), domestic anime in this regard also need to refuel ah, do not rely solely on selling meat to attract the audience, As Guo Degang said, the work ultimately relies on culture.
Today, shiva is the god of destruction, one of the three phases of Hindu mythology, with a dual divinity of reproduction and destruction, creation and destruction. Shiva had the strongest fighting power among the Hindu gods (in fact, his wife was more terrifying than him, we have time to write about this), and he practiced asceticism all year round in the Himalayas in Mount Catpassana, gaining the most profound knowledge and magical powers through the strictest asceticism and the most thorough contemplation. He possesses eight Dharma bodies: earth, water, fire, wind, air, sun, moon, and sacrifice. Buddhism reveres it as the Great Self Heaven, the ultimate heaven at the top of the second realm of the Three Realms, and the Lord of the Three Thousand Realms. The general image is three eyes and four hands, holding a trident, a conch, a water jug, a drum, etc.; a crescent moon is used as a decoration on the head, and the hair is coiled into a horn, with a symbol of the Ganges on it. Legend has it that when the Ganges fell on his head, it flowed to the earth in seven ways, with a snake around its neck (note that the image of the snake reappeared), and the mount was a large white bull.
Although Shiva was not a god of water, his relationship with the water of the Ganges and the trident he held, many experts believe that he had a certain inheritance with poseidon, the god of the sea in ancient Greek mythology. In addition, Shiva is also the god of dance, but his dance is not for entertainment, but for destruction and death. Usually Shiva dances in a circle of fire, with his right hand holding a drum, symbolizing life; his left palm holding fire, symbolizing destruction; and shiva holding two elements in his hand, creation and destruction. Whenever an old era ends or a catastrophe begins, he completes the destruction of the world by dancing the Dance of Tandava and returns it to the universe (equivalent to a reboot of the small universe in The Three-Body Problem).
The Three Eyes is the biggest feature that distinguishes him from Brahma and Vishnu, and is also a nuclear bomb-level weapon. This eye is always closed, and once it is opened, it will spew out a fire of anger that destroys the world and destroys everything it sees, and even God is not spared. The goddess who once seduced Shiva was burned to ashes by this eye, and easily burned down three demon cities.
Shiva looks infinite and has many devotees, but it just looks beautiful.
Although there are many of his Dharma bodies, and there are many heroic and handsome images, it is interesting that what you see in most of the temples dedicated to Shiva in Hindu religious areas and ethnic groups is the image of him as a combination of Linga (male part) or Linga and Joni (female part), although the earliest civilizations of mankind had the phenomenon of reproductive worship, but in the 21st century, Indian civilization expressed this image in the form of a deity image for believers to worship and let tourists see, which is indeed a ruin. Of course, the culture is different, and perhaps Indians still feel that this is a great power.
In addition, his family life is not happy, and it is even possible that he has been "green hat". According to the Book of Past Lives, Shiva and Parvati, the goddess of the snowy mountains, had two sons, the eldest son being Muro Tsuneto (the Buddhist Vedic Bodhisattva) and the second son being Ganesh, the god of wisdom. The eldest son was undoubtedly Born of Shiva, and according to legend, at the request of the gods, Shiva shot his essence into the water of the Ganges, after which Murojianta was born, so he also had the title of "Son of the Ganges". If reflected in the world, Murdjieta should be born of Shiva and the goddess Ganges who had an ambiguous relationship.
But whether the second son was his child was extremely doubtful.
Also from the Book of Past Lives, after Vishnu's sister Parvati married Shiva, she saw that Shiva and the Goddess ganga had broken off their ties, and her wife was very annoyed and often quarreled with Shiva about it. After a big fight, Shiva ran away from home in a negative mood and waited for several years to come home. As a result, when I came home, I found that I had more sons in the family, (big) elephant head and white skin, and I didn't have the appearance of a Dravidian at all, and I had nothing to do with myself when I looked at it.
Even more infuriating, the son not only denied Shiva as his father, but also forbade him to approach Parvati. The two sides quarreled, and Shiva killed Ganesh (and later resurrected) in one fell swoop. According to a professor at Peking University, Ganesh should have been Indra, the son of the thirty-three-day lord of the drunken and lustful Emperor Shi Tian (in the secular sense).
Although later Hinduism, in order to beautify the elephant head Ganesha (who later evolved to be the god of good fortune and success), adapted this story into Parvati using turmeric clay used for purification to make a little boy and give him life (note that the legend of nuwa's creation of man is borrowed here), and also made up a Shiva who returned from practice because of the results of guarding his mother's bath, and Shiva also cut off his head with a trident (so big a move Parvati can still bathe in peace), and later Shiva knew that he was wrong, He also went to Vishnu for help, and finally installed a twisted story of an elephant's head on Ganesha's head, but this still did not change the fact that Ganissa was not Shiva's own child, and the whole story was full of "husband came home, and the wife said I will do magic for you, so I opened the quilt and there was a big guy in it".
So the family's relationship is quite bad, and you can see from where they live, Shiva has lived in the Kashmir region of North India, Parvati has lived in the Bengal region of East India, Murdjieta has lived in the Darobidi region of South India, and Ganesh has lived in the Maharashtra region of West India. In this way, the Shiva family was "torn apart" and became another peculiar feature of Indian culture.