The Powerful God:
Shiva
is 'shakti' or power, Shiva is the destroyer, the most powerful god of
the Hindu pantheon and one of the godheads in the Hindu Trinity. Known
by many names - Mahadeva, Mahayogi, Pashupati, Nataraja, Bhairava,
Vishwanath, Bhava, Bhole Nath - Lord Shiva is perhaps the most complex
of Hindu deities. Hindus recognize this by putting his shrine in the
temple separate from those of other deities.
Shiva As Phallic Symbol:
Shiva,
in temples is usually found as a phallic symbol of the 'linga', which
represents the energies necessary for life on both the microcosmic and
the macrocosmic levels, that is, the world in which we live and the
world which constitutes the whole of the universe. In a Shaivite temple,
the 'linga' is placed in the center underneath the spire, where it
symbolizes the naval of the earth.
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