When one thinks of Shiva — the supreme yogi, the destroyer of evil, the tranquil ascetic — it is hard to imagine him wielding his wrath upon another god. Yet among the many legends that swirl through ...

Shiva, the traditional Jewish mourning period for close relatives, is normally seven days long. It makes sense that shiva should be seven days. Seven (shiva in Hebrew) is a number with special ...

In the beginning, Brahma was the first. The Creator. Born from the lotus that emerged from Vishnu’s navel, he gave life to everything—gods, demons, humans, and nature itself. And as the father of ...