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All kinds Origin Legend Local story Folk tale From the epics Festival story Temple legend In stone and bronze How a tradition frames it

Everywhere Pan-India 95 South India 67 West India 30 East India 22 North India 15 The Himalaya 12 Northeast India 5 Southeast Asia 4 Central India 4

Origin · 5 tellings · contested

How Shiva became half woman

Brahma makes a world of male beings that cannot multiply.

Ardhanarishvara, Shiva, Parvati, Bhringi

East India Pan-India South India

In stone and bronze · 1 telling

Shiva under Kali's feet

Bengal's Kali stands on a corpse-like Shiva: without Shakti he is shava, a body; a Howrah folk dance plays the scene.

Kali, Shiva, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

East India