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Encyclopedia Britannica



SIVA

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 162 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SIVA , in Hindu
mythology
 , a god who forms the supreme trinity with Brahma and
Vishnu
 . As Brahma is the creator and
Vishnu
  the preserver, so Siva is the destroyer. His name does not occur in the Vedas, but in later Hinduism he is an important divinity. Though Siva's personal
appearance
  is fully described in the Puranas, it is in the form of the linga (phallic emblem) that he is almost universally worshipped. Death being a transition to a new form of
life
 , the destroyer is really a re-creator, and thus Siva is styled the
Bright
  or Happy One. He is exclusively a
post
 -Vedic god, though he has been identified by the Hindus with the
Rudra
  of the Vedas, and numerous features of Siva's
character
  and history are
developed
  from those of
Rudra
 . See further BRAIIMANISM and HINDUISM.


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