History of Shaivism

History & overview · every faith gets one

Shiva: destroyer, dancer, and the yogi's god.

Shiva as the ultimate — ascetic and householder, destroyer and regenerator at once. A tradition running from mountain yogis to great temple cities.

The divine. Shiva as ultimate reality.

Death and after. Liberation — union with Shiva.

The line

descent is public here — where it came from, what left it

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