Puranas (also translated into puranas Purana,) is a kind of ancient Indian literature, is considered to be the ancient history, and India's ancient scripture, is ancient history, legends, myths and stories.Cover has a very wide range of content, including cosmology, theogony and religious activities.Many of the purana contain rich theory of religion and philosophy.They are all out of the hand of the same authors vyasa, write a written in Sanskrit.Puranas and great epics of India, both encyclopedia properties.

The story of the shiva purana

Siva forThe HinduOne of god, who with the help of the gods with one arrow destroyed the gold, silver, iron, built three demon city, namely the destruction of the sandu, so there are three magic in shiva, the destroyer.

Legend, his wife, snow mountain goddess with two hands from behind cover your eyes, shiva, from shiva third eye brow.Forehead of third eye can spray destroy all life, the periodic destruction in the universe, he will use this eye kill all and other creatures of god, he also used the eye to the three demon city for evil, and lure him out of the ashes of ascetic love god.

In addition, he also had a handle called "card" than that of the trident, is the symbol of lightning, marks the shiva is the god of storm;There is a sword;A called "ajay ng" bow and one of them called "carter all ng" sticks.In addition, there are three snakes around him, and can quickly rushed to the enemy: a snake around his bundle up hair, raise your helmet on his head;A snake wrapped around his shoulders or neck;Another snake constitute a line of his holiness.In addition to these weapons, features emphasized the god shiva's most looks cruel, he is so well known.

From all the gods of the devas and asura churning sea when a poison to destroy the whole world, he swallowed the poison and the neck was burned into young black, therefore is called "green neck".

Hinduism believes "destruction" has the meaning of "renewable", so the reproductive capacity of male born Lin said ng is the symbol of his creativity, set by shakti and shiva christians worship.

One day a contention of Vishnu and brahma, see who is more worthy of respect.Just as they argue, appeared before them a pillar, flames like burning of the universe.Two great god he frightened to disgrace, all decision should go to find the origin of the pillar.Then Vishnu into a huge wild boar, along the pillars down for one thousand years;Become a fast flying swan brahma, upward along the pillars are also found in one thousand.But they have not reached the end of the pillars, and weary land back.When they return to the origin, when we meet shiva appeared in front of them;At the moment they discovered this post was originally shiva, "Lin ng".So the two great god shiva as the greatest most worthy of worship of god.Therefore, the Hindu Lord shiva to shiva church as a supreme god, the god of the universe and Vishnu and brahma both great god under him.

In the Indian epic ramayana has a "the origin of the Ganges," said the story, the Hindu god Siva and uma copulation, once reached more than 100 years, that between the gods of the reproductive ability of shiva alarm, begged his semen shiva pour into the Ganges and this is the water of the Ganges river from the day.

Shiva is the god of asceticism, and all the year round in the Himalayas, Lhasa practice asceticism, mountain is the Planck county in Tibet rinpoche qifeng, through the most stringent penance and meditation to get the most thorough esoteric knowledge and magic power.

He is the god of dance, like to dance when joy and sorrow, create and soft two kinds of dance, was regarded as commissioned.Dance symbolizes the glory the shiva and eternal movement of the universe, is in order to make the universe immortality.But at the end of an era, he jumped through Tanzania dawa dance complete destruction of the world and incorporated into the spirit of the world.Dance posture called Nataraja, shiva is ancient India and popular as shiva in one of the most.

New York City metropolitan museum of shiva, as he was the leader of the monsters.His image is portrayed as 5 head 3 eyes four hands, hands holding the three fork, pitcher, god screw, drum, etc;Dressed in animal skins, and ash, and there is a crescent moon as decoration, hair shaped into horns, there is the symbol of the Ganges.The mount is a head of buffalo.

Shiva "auspicious" means, in the rigveda the god rudra's nickname is the storm.On the one hand, he is a heavy rain, thunder god, the god of destruction, on the other side he is god treat disease cure.

Shiva is one of the good deeds of the distribution of the seven sacred river.The Ganges river were surrounded by the city of brahma of mei lu mountain in the Himalayas, the turbulent circumstance from the mountain.To buffer rapids to undermine the evil, shiva, standing in the water below, after the river winds its way through his bundle of hair is divided into seven stocks, the seven rivers became 7 sacred river of India.

With other gods dress showily, shiva's dress.His personality is also proud withdrawn (especially gentle than Vishnu and personality).Quarrel with many god shiva, even destroy the worship of the gods.Other many of those who thought he was god kill the blessed one, because he cut a head of brahman, when they had argued about who was the creator of the universe.Eventually provoked shiva, the whole body is wrapped around anger, after seeing the gods are referred to as "postscript to the Luo Po" (slayer Bhirava meaning as a terrorist).Due to this crime he was sent to make an atonement for tramp and austerities;The gods also laughed at his homeless beggars was ugly, dirty, grumpy, found in the graveyard.But in the end also like brahma and Vishnu, shiva has his own heaven, it is located in the Himalayas keira Mr Hill, there is the place that shiva practice, where the Ganges from his head.