Shiv |
Shivaa |
Shiv is as fair has the camphor. |
Shivaa is variously fair (Parvati), dark (Maha Kali), golden (Devi) etc |
Shiv is (frustratingly) calm and patient. He loves to sit in meditation and essentially “do nothing” if he can help it. |
Shivaa is constantly active and busy. Shivaa can not sit patiently and agitates to get things done “instantly”. |
Shiv rides a bull. |
Shivaa rides lions, tigers and various other predatory animals. |
Shiv is unkempt and cares not for the strictures of society. |
Shivaa is a highly sophisticated beauty who loves to socialise and nurture everyone as the “great mother” of the universe. |
Shiv is variously naked, smeared in ashes of the dead, wears raw hides of monsters he has killed. Cobras writher all over Shiv. |
Shivaa is clothed in fine clothes and jewels as befitting the Adi-Prakruti of the universe. |
Ghosts, ghouls, monsters and sages with matted locks surround Shiv. |
Shivaa is surrounded by beautiful nymphs and her handsome sons, Kartik and Ganesh. |
Shiv is comfortable living in the charnel ground, surrounded by burning corpses. |
Shivaa prefers the snow bound peaks of
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Shiv is the primordial Purusha (male) |
Shivaa is the primordial Prakruti (female) |
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