Parvati finds a warm, moving stone in the ash at Kailasa, and Shiva throws it away. Guliga bursts from it, hungry enough to reach for the sun. Shiva sends him to Vishnu, where he drains Vishnu's lake and eats its fish. Vishnu curses him to be born of Nelaulla Sanke; he tears out through her left breast. Elephants and horses do not fill him; Vishnu gives his little finger, and the hunger ends. He is sent to Tulu Nadu as a kshetrapala, the guardian of its boundaries.
Sources: The paddana of Guliga (Tulu folklore documentation: Live History India; Tulu Research; Kantara-era press summaries)
Kali, drunk with the blood of the demons she has killed, rules the banyan forest of Tiruvalangadu and terrifies it, until Shiva comes and she challenges him to dance. He drops an earring, picks it up with his toe and lifts his foot to his ear, and she cannot follow. At Chidambaram she loses the same contest and is sent to the edge of the town.
The demon Daruka can be killed by no man, so Shiva brings out of himself a goddess: Kali from the poison in his throat in the Linga Purana, Bhadrakali from his third eye in Kerala. She kills Daruka, and her anger is cooled only when Shiva lies in her path as a crying baby.
Forbidden by Shiva to go to her father Daksha's sacrifice, Sati turns dark and terrible; when Shiva runs, she stands before him in every direction in ten forms, names them, and goes. Oral tellings put the same ring of ten round Shiva when he tries to leave Parvati or Kali.
Shiva and Parvati must choose between their two sons.
Murugan marches from Kailash to the seashore at Tiruchendur, sends Veerabahu to offer peace, fights Surapadman's brothers and sons for five days and on the sixth splits the demon, hiding as a mango tree, with his lance; the two halves become his peacock and his cock banner.
Mena's long worship, the birth of the mountain's daughter at midnight in spring, Narada's reading of the strange husband in her palm, and the girl who answers Shiva when her father cannot.
The seed Agni could not hold, Parvati's curse on the gods' wives, the six sages' wives, the Ganga and the reeds, the six Krittikas who nursed one boy with six faces, and the day Parvati sent for her son; in the Tamil Kanda Puranam her embrace makes six babies one.
Shiva calls the world and its food an illusion; Parvati withdraws and the world starves; Shiva comes to Kashi with a begging bowl and she feeds him by hand. Bengal's Annada Mangal tells the same famine with Shiva dancing for joy and Vishvakarma building her city.