Lord Shiva the destroyer in Hinduism

Lord Shiva the destroyer in Hinduism

Shiva in Hindu mythology is known as the supreme deity and many of his worshipers. The Shiva myth can be found in several Hindu holy books, namely the Brāhmana, Mahābhārata, Purāna, and Āgama. In the oldest Hindu book, the Vedic Samhita, although Shiva's own name was never included, but in fact the seeds of the manifestation of Shiva's own figure already exist, namely Rudra. The Satapatha-Brāhmana book tells of the birth of Rudra. It is said that there was a family head named Prajapati who had a son. From birth, the child cried all the time, he felt inseparable from the ugliness of not being named by his father. Then Prajapati gave him the name Rudra, which comes from the root of the word rud which means to cry. The history of Rudra's birth according to Mārkandeya Purāna was due to Brahma's desire to have a child who resembled him. To achieve this goal, Brahmā went to asceticism. Middle imprisoned, suddenly appeared a boy with a bluish red skin crying in his lap. When…