Shiva

• One being, three functions: the Trimurti idea
  How a tradition frames it · as dissolver (as Rudra) · 6 tellings
• Dattatreya: the three natures in one son
  In stone and bronze · as one of the three natures · 2 tellings
• Harihara: Vishnu and Shiva in one body
  In stone and bronze · as left or ascetic half · 2 tellings
• The Elephanta bust: Trimurti or Sadashiva?
  In stone and bronze · as the three faces (Tatpurusha or Sadashiva, Aghora, Vamadeva) · 3 tellings
• The so-called Trimurti cave at Mahabalipuram
  In stone and bronze · as central shrine · 2 tellings
• Brahma born from Shiva's right side
  Origin · as the source · 2 tellings
• Saraswati: daughter, consort, or both
  Origin · as as Rudra, created to stop Prajapati in the Vedic antecedent · 6 tellings
• The fifth head and the skull that would not fall
  Legend · as orders or performs the beheading · 8 tellings
• The ketaki lie and the curse of no worship
  Legend · as the pillar of fire, Lingodbhava · 3 tellings
• Bhrigu tests the three gods
  Legend · as raises his trident · 3 tellings
• Brahma, Sandhya and the curse on Kama
  Legend · as mocks the sages · 1 telling
• Tirupattur: Brahma rewrites his own fate
  Temple legend · as as Brahmapureeswarar, punishes and restores · 1 telling
• Saraswati's forty-eight letters found the Madurai Sangam
  Local story · as as Sundareswarar of Madurai, receives the poets · 1 telling
• Brahma drives Lingaraj's chariot
  Temple legend · as as Lingaraj of Bhubaneswar · 1 telling
• Shiva's sixty-four games in Madurai
  Local story · as protagonist, as Sundareswarar · 2 tellings
• Aiyanar, the horseman at the village edge
  Folk tale · as father in the Sanskritised telling · 2 tellings
• Ayyappa and his companion Vavar
  Local story · as father · 2 tellings
• The Sharanas' Shiva of the meeting rivers
  How a tradition frames it · as the poets' personal lord, as Kudalasangamadeva · 2 tellings
• The Puranas played till dawn
  Folk tale · as the boon-giver whom Bhasmasura turns on · 1 telling
• The boar Shiva sent to earth
  Folk tale · as master of the garden who banishes the boar · 1 telling
• Three gods in one guru
  How a tradition frames it · as one of the three heads · 2 tellings
• Shiva the begging farmer of the Gajan
  Festival story · as the poor farmer-householder who begs and marries · 2 tellings
• Shiva takes up the plough
  Folk tale · as the poor farmer of rural Bengal · 2 tellings
• Manasa and the merchant who would not bow
  Folk tale · as her father, whose devotee she fights · 1 telling
• Shiva under Kali's feet
  In stone and bronze · as the corpse-like body beneath her · 1 telling
• Lingo frees the gods from Mahadeo's cave
  Origin · as as Mahadeo, the jailer · 2 tellings
• Nanda goes to Kailash as a bride
  Festival story · as the bridegroom at Kailash · 2 tellings
• Three faces of one Widhi
  How a tradition frames it · as manifestation, as Siwa · 2 tellings
• Rama in Thailand and Cambodia
  From the epics · as as Phra Isuan, the boon-giver · 2 tellings
• The pillar of light
  Origin · as protagonist (Lingodbhava, Jyotirlinga) · 6 tellings
• Bhrigu tests the three gods
  Legend · as tested, raises trident (cursed in popular tellings) · 4 tellings
• The churning of the ocean of milk
  Legend · as drinks the poison · 3 tellings
• Mohini and the demon who burned himself
  Folk tale · as boon-giver, flees · 2 tellings
• The birth of Ayyappa
  Temple legend · as father · 4 tellings
• How Vishnu and Shiva became one body
  Temple legend · as right half · 4 tellings
• Anasuya tests the three gods
  Legend · as tested, made an infant · 4 tellings
• Brahma's fifth head and the skull that would not fall
  Legend · as produces Bhairava; wanders as Bhikshatana · 5 tellings
• The burning of the three cities
  Legend · as the archer, Tripurantaka · 4 tellings
• Rama installs the linga at Rameswaram
  Temple legend · as worshipped as Ramanathaswamy · 3 tellings
• Krishna's penance for a son
  From the epics · as appears as Ardhanarishvara and grants the boon · 1 telling
• Vishnu's thousand lotuses and his eye
  Legend · as receives the worship, restores the eye, grants the discus · 3 tellings
• Hanuman as Shiva's own avatar
  How a tradition frames it · as his origin (Shaiva) · 2 tellings
• Who made whom: the Shiva Purana's creation frame
  How a tradition frames it · as the source, beyond purusha and prakriti · 1 telling
• Who made whom: the Devi Bhagavata's frame
  How a tradition frames it · as made a woman for a hundred years · 1 telling
• All as one: the Smarta Panchayatana
  How a tradition frames it · as one of the five · 1 telling
• The so-called Trimurti cave at Mahabalipuram
  In stone and bronze · as central shrine · 2 tellings
• The three gods together on the Kailasa temple, Ellora
  In stone and bronze · as central figure of every panel · 1 telling
• The triple shrine of Phnom Bok
  In stone and bronze · as central tower · 1 telling
• Rudra, the howling archer of the Rigveda
  Origin · as later identity · 1 telling
• How scholars explain Shiva's rise
  How a tradition frames it · as subject · 1 telling
• The horned figure on the Indus seal
  How a tradition frames it · as claimed prototype · 1 telling
• Rudra becomes the one Lord
  Origin · as name crystallising · 1 telling
• The five faces and the five acts
  In stone and bronze · as the one behind the faces · 3 tellings
• How Shiva became half woman
  Origin · as protagonist · 5 tellings
• The silent teacher under the banyan
  In stone and bronze · as the teacher · 3 tellings
• Shiva as great time
  In stone and bronze · as the god · 1 telling
• Five ways the Shaivas see him
  How a tradition frames it · as subject · 1 telling
• Daksha's sacrifice and the death of Sati
  Legend · as husband · 5 tellings
• Parvati wins Shiva
  Legend · as the ascetic won · 5 tellings
• Kama burnt by the third eye
  Legend · as the ascetic disturbed · 4 tellings
• The birth of Kartikeya
  Origin · as father · 4 tellings
• The birth of Ganesha
  Origin · as father · 6 tellings
• Shiva drinks the poison
  Legend · as protagonist · 4 tellings
• Ganga comes down through Shiva's hair
  Legend · as catches her (Gangadhara) · 4 tellings
• The three cities burnt with one arrow
  Legend · as the archer · 2 tellings
• Andhaka, the blind demon who wanted his mother
  Legend · as slayer · 4 tellings
• The demon who could burn with a touch
  Folk tale · as the boon-giver who must flee · 2 tellings
• Ravana lifts Kailash
  Legend · as the mountain's lord · 3 tellings
• Ravana loses the atmalinga
  Temple legend · as grants the linga · 2 tellings
• Markandeya and the noose of death
  Legend · as rescuer as Kalantaka · 2 tellings
• The dance at Tillai and the contest with Kali
  Temple legend · as the god · 3 tellings
• Kannappa gives his eyes
  Legend · as the linga that bleeds · 2 tellings
• The hunter and Arjuna
  From the epics · as the hunter · 1 telling
• The twelve pillars of light
  Temple legend · as the light · 2 tellings
• The earring in Vishnu's well
  Temple legend · as the earring and the boon · 1 telling
• The Pandavas and the bull of Kedar
  Temple legend · as the bull · 2 tellings
• The antelope's horn at Pashupatinath
  Temple legend · as the antelope · 2 tellings
• The secret of immortality in the ice cave
  Temple legend · as teller of the secret · 2 tellings
• The moon's curse eased at Somnath
  Temple legend · as eases the curse · 1 telling
• Gautama's penance and the Godavari
  Temple legend · as releases the river · 1 telling
• The demon of the Sahyadri and the Bhima river
  Temple legend · as the slayer as Bhima Shankara · 3 tellings
• Ghushma's hundred and one lingas
  Temple legend · as restores the son · 1 telling
• How Mahakal came to Ujjain
  Local story · as rises as Mahakal · 1 telling
• The sixty-four games of Shiva at Madurai
  Local story · as the player · 2 tellings
• Shiva carries earth for an old woman's puttu
  Local story · as the labourer · 1 telling
• Nakkeerar disputes Shiva's poem
  Local story · as the anonymous poet · 1 telling
• The girl with three breasts
  Temple legend · as the destined husband · 1 telling
• Shiva under the banyan at Thrissur
  Temple legend · as appears as a linga · 1 telling
• The lord of the single mango tree
  Temple legend · as as Lingaraj · 1 telling
• The cow that milked a stone
  Folk tale · as as Taraknath · 1 telling
• The queen's tower at Sivasagar
  In stone and bronze · as the deity · 1 telling
• Why the night of Shiva is kept
  Festival story · as the god of the night · 6 tellings
• Carrying Ganga water to Shiva in Shravan
  Festival story · as the recipient · 3 tellings
• The lamp on the hill
  Festival story · as the fire · 3 tellings
• The longest night: Arudra and Thiruvathira
  Festival story · as the god · 2 tellings
• Parvati's festivals of the north-west
  Festival story · as as Isar · 2 tellings
• Parvati's penance on the hill of fire
  Temple legend · as the hill · 1 telling
• Rama's linga at Rameswaram
  Temple legend · as the god worshipped · 2 tellings
• The spider, the snake and the elephant
  Temple legend · as the air linga · 1 telling
• Shiva's own city
  Temple legend · as the lord of the city · 1 telling
• Vishnu created from Shiva's left side
  How a tradition frames it · as creator · 1 telling
• The churning of the ocean of milk
  Legend · as drinks the poison · 3 tellings
• Bhrigu's kick and the coming of Srinivasa
  Temple legend · as tested · 4 tellings
• Two origins of the discus
  Legend · as giver · 3 tellings
• Mohini, the self-burning demon and the birth of Ayyappa
  Folk tale · as boon-giver and father · 1 telling
• Vishnu and Rama as worshippers of Shiva
  Legend · as worshipped · 2 tellings
• Vrinda's curse and the wedding of Tulsi
  Festival story · as slayer of Jalandhara · 2 tellings
• The image that came from Vaikuntha to Guruvayur
  Temple legend · as moves aside · 1 telling

17 core stories with variants; exact Shiva/Linga Purana chapter-verse gaps (wisdomlib 403). Bhimashankar legend conflict recorded.

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