Devalok

Stories 3

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
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Tradition: Shaiva · clear

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

Temple legend · 1 telling · contested

Parvati's penance on the hill of fire

After the quarrel of Brahma and Vishnu the pillar of fire cools into the red hill of Arunachala.

Parvati, Shiva, Tiruvannamalai (Arunachala), Ardhanarishvara

South India

Temple legend · 1 telling · contested

Tirupattur: Brahma rewrites his own fate

Brahma grows proud and Shiva takes away his fifth head and his power to create.

Brahma, Shiva, Patanjali

South India