India and the Hindu diaspora. Shiva is both the destroyer and the restorer, the great ascetic and the symbol of sensuality, the benevolent herdsman of souls and the wrathful avenger. hiva's female consort is known under various manifestations as Uma, Safi, Parvati, Durga, Kall, and sometimes Sakti, The divine couple, together with their ons-Skanda and Ganesa dwell on Mount Kailasa in the Himalayas. Shiva's mount and animal image is the bull Nandi. In temples and in private shrines Shiva is worshiped in the form of the aniconic lingo, a cylindrical structure in the centre of a spouted dish, or yoni. Together these symbolize eternal creation and regeneration. Shiva is usually depicted with a blue neck (from holding in his throat the poison thrown up at the churning of the milk-ocean, which threatened to destroy humankind), his hair arranged in a coil of matted locks (jaui-makuta; and adorned with the crescent moon and the Ganga River (he brought the Ganga to Earth by allowing her to trickle through his hair, thus breaking her fall). He has three eyes, the third eye bestowing inward vision but capable of burning destruction when focused outward. He wears a garland of skulls and a serpent around his neck and carries in his two (sometimes four) hands a deerskin, a trident, a small hand drum, or a club with a skull at the end.

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