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Shiv Katha
It is said that Brahma sat in deep
meditation holding all his vital energies and from the sound of
Om that he held close to his heart, emerged Shiv. He
came out of Brahma’s forehead.
Shiv married twice,
once the granddaughter of Brahma, named Sati and also married Sati again
when she was reborn as Parvati, the daughter of the King of the
Himalayas, Daksha. He had two sons, Ganesh and Kartikeya.
Shiv is
destroyer of evil and the most feared of the gods. He is commonly
depicted seated in profound thought, with a third eye in the
middle of his forehead. His hair is matted and the crescent moon
sits on his head. The river Ganges flows from his head. One
popular myth has it that the Divine river Ganges condescended to
come down to earth after being assured that Shiv
the great god of the Himalayan mountains, had been pleased with a
devotees penance, and had agreed to bear the impact of the falling
torrents of the river by controlling it in the matted locks of
his head.
Jyotirlinga
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