Shiva likewise pairs with Parvati who later is represented through a number of Avatars ( incarnations ): Sati and the warrior figures, Durga and Kali.

Any male icon portrayed in this way is Shiva although a female icon may sometimes be portrayed with these attributes as Shiva's consort, Parvati.

He is often accompanied by his consort Parvati or shown with Nandi the bull.

He is father of Ganga and Saraswati, who became rivers, and Parvati, who married Shiva

Traditionally, the first transmission of Kama Shastra or " Discipline of Kama " is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva's doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife Parvati and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind.

At the top of the Hindu philosophy is the formless, undefined Brahman, from whom / which come the different forms and deities, the foremost of which is the Trimurti: Brahma ( the creator ), Vishnu ( the sustainer ) and Shiva ( the destroyer ), and their individual ' Shakti ' ( commonly defined as their wives, but also goddesses in their own right ): Saraswati the goddess of learning, Lakshmi the goddess of all forms of wealth, and Parvati ( also known as Durga, Shakti, Ambika ) the goddess of courage and power.

Shakti can referred as power of any deity typically known as Parvati or Sati or Durga but Adi Shakti is not associated with any god including Trimurti.

Finally, Shiva is destroyer and re-creator, so he needs goddess Parvati, Durga, or Kali for power.

The interesting office of the god of love is held by Kamadeva, also called Ananga, the bodyless, because, as the scriptures relate, having once tried by the power of his mischievous arrow to make Siva fall in love with Parvati, whilst he was engaged in devotional practices, the urchin was reduced to ashes by a glance of the angry god.

Parvati ( Devanagri:, IAST: Pārvatī ) is a Hindu goddess.

Parvati is Shakti, the wife of Shiva and the gentle aspect of Mahadevi, the Great Goddess.

Parvati is considered as complete incarnation of Adi Parashakti ', with all other goddesses being her incarnations or manifestations.

Parvati is the mother of the gods and goddess, Ganesha and Skanda ( Kartikeya ).

Parvati, when depicted alongside Shiva, generally appears with two arms, but when alone, she is shown having four or eight arms, and astride a tiger or lion.

In South India especially Andhra Pradesh Dussera Navaratri is also celebrated and the goddess is dressed each day as a different devi like Sraswati, Parvati, Laksmi etc.

Shiva and his wife Parvati often frequent Kubera's court, which is attended by semi-divine beings like the Vidyadharas ; Kimpurushas ; Rakshasas ; Pishachas ; as well as Padma and Shankha ; personified treasures ( nidhi ); and Manibhadra, Kubera's chief attendant and chief of his army.

Some millions of years later, three of Andhaka's generals ( Duryodhana is not the Duryodhana from the Mahabharata, Vighasa and Hasti ) happened upon Shiva and Parvati in a cave, but did not recognise them.

In a variant myth, Andhaka is raised by Shiva and Parvati, but becomes smitten with his mother and attempts to rape her, leading Shiva to tear him apart.

In the Kalika Purana, Parvati ( called Gauri here ) is described as having suspected Shiva of infidelity when she saw her own reflection in the crystal-like breast of Shiva.

It conveys that God is both Shiva and Parvati, " both male and female, both father and mother, both aloof and active, both fearsome and gentle, both destructive and constructive " and unifies all other dichotomies of the universe.

Ardhanarishvara reconciles and harmonizes the two conflicting ways of life: the spiritual way of the ascetic as represented by Shiva, and the materialistic way of the householder as symbolized by Parvati, whose raison d ’ être in Hindu mythology is to lure the ascetic Shiva into marriage and the wider circle of worldly affairs.

The interdependence of Shiva on his power ( Shakti ) as embodied in Parvati is also manifested in this form.

Once, the god Vishnu and his wife Lakshmi visited Shiva and his second wife Parvati ( a reincarnation of Sati ) and gifted them fine foods.

Similar legends replace Sati with Parvati, the second wife of Shiva and reincarnation of Sati or Kali, the chief Mahavidya, as the wife of Shiva and origin of the other Mahavidyas.

In Hinduism, the goddess Tara ( Bengali: দ ে ব ী ত া র া ম া )( Sanskrit: Tārā, Devanagari: त ा र ा) meaning " star " is the second of the Dasa ( ten ) Mahavidyas or " Great Wisdom ", Tantric manifestations of Mahadevi, Kali, or Parvati.

The second personality, that of Parvati IV, usually arises when Pai is defenseless, endangered, or emotionally overcome.

An aspect of Devi, Dākshāyani is the first consort of Shiva, the second being Parvati, the reincarnation of Sati herself.

He had then recently married his second wife Lakshmi Parvati.

He recounts that his consort Chandika ( identified with Parvati ) was engrossed in coitus with him in reverse posture, but became enraged at his seminal emission.

The work describes the marriage of Lord Shiva and his consort Parvati.

Note the sculpture's left is female and the right is male, depicting Shiva and his consort Parvati.

Further Lord Shiva is believed to have taken up temporary residence after a dispute with his consort Parvati.

The coin depicts Siva seated, holding his attributes of a trident and a deer, with his consort Parvati seated on his lap.

Lord Shiva's divine consort, Goddess Parvati ( who is also the daughter of Himalaya ), is the deity of strength.

According to legend, when Sambandar was three years old his parents took him to the Shiva temple where Shiva and his consort Parvati appeared before the child.

Durga Puja also includes the worship of Shiva, who is Durga's consort ( Durga is an aspect of Goddess Parvati ), in addition to Lakshmi, Saraswati with Ganesha and Kartikeya, who are considered to be Durga's children.

It runs in the line of Hindu yoga ( to distinguish from Buddhist and Jain yoga ) and is dedicated to Śrī ( Lord ) ādi nāthā ( Adinatha ), a name for Lord Shiva ( the Hindu god of destruction and renewal ), who is believed to have imparted the secret of hatha yoga to his divine consort Parvati.

His consort, Parvati, complained that Shiva was now impossible to live with.

Traditional stories tell that Lord Ganesha was created by goddess Parvati, consort of Lord Shiva.

This child was three years old and actually the incarnation of goddess Parvati the consort of Shiva.

* Shivā ( ending with long ' a '), another name of Parvati, Shiva's consort

His consort Parvati then held his throat tightly to prevent the poison from spreading to the rest of his body and killing him.

Its hundred and three shlokas ( verses ) eulogize the beauty, grace and munificence of Goddess Parvati / Dakshayani, consort of Shiva.

and recognize her as a consort of Shiva and mother of Ganesha and Kartikeya, which are characteristics of goddesses like Parvati and Durga.

According a Hindu legend, this is the cave where Shiva explained the secret of life and eternity to his divine consort Parvati.