shiva shiva the god/goddess of destruction. mm mmm... 000916 ... frankenfistkitten "...i am become death the destroyer of worlds" robert oppenheimer quoting from the bhagavad_gita at the detonation of the atomic bomb ka-BLooEY! 000916 ... shiva If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky, That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds. -Bhagavad-Gita- 000916 ... torch but shiva is also the god of rebirth and fertility. what he destroys, he creates anew. 000917 ... boInG "destruction leads to a very rough road but it also breed creation" 000918 ... shiva now i feel like i have to defend myself. yes, i know about the non-destructive part, and that's the reason i like the concept of shiva so much. i love the whole birth/rebirth thing, like Ragnarok and the Neon Genesis Evangelion movie and the bees taking over the earth from Wargames. i love that stuff. but anyway, it's just a name and i haven't seen it used by anyone before. 000929 ... Barrett "Do The Rite of Shiva." (Machines of Loving Grace) 000930 ... ClairE is dead_sexy. What is the Jewish ritual of sitting mourning called? 011202 ... paste! what bostonians do when they're cold. ha ha HA HA. so funny i should go now. 011202 ... Grievance Both Shiva and Ragnarok are Final Fantasy names of deities that reoccur through almost every single Final Fantasy. Borrowed of course from the traditional ones. who says video games don't teach people things? 011202 ... shiva ragnarok's not a deity dude. it's an event. 011202 ... Grievance true, true. gomen. arigato. *bows* 011203 ... lobsterman i can beat her two weak arms at arm wrestling, but the other four confound me 020502 ... pete guys.. those gita quotes are Krishna talking, who is an avatar of Vishnu.. not shiva. Shiva. The Destroyer. The Aestetic. The ladies man. The family man. The dancer. Shiva is like dionysus, a man of many hats. Shiva. Oh Shiva! Kali can step on him, shakti immolated herself for his honour, and he retrieved her, but it was to late. He and pravparti dwell in kashmir. There are yearly pilgimidges to see the Ice Pillar. Shavites like hashish I am told. I think my prof was the one that liked it though, and I mean none of this as a disrespect. 040311 ... f do you ever? 040312 ... pete at times. no one is perfect. i am sure shiva meant disrespect (and pravaparti too) when he spilled his seed and agni ate it, giving agni horrible stomach aches, and then giving 10 women unimaginable morning sickness, and causing the himalyas to quake.. all because they could not hold his seed. only the ganga, which shiva has in his hair, could hold it, and on its banks his son.. the one that rides the ostrich.. was born 040312 ... zeke kali 040312 ... u24 I thought kali was the goddess of death, not destruction? could be (and probably am) wrong, tho. 040312 ... Soma yew shiva in the cold now furnice on fool blast the cosmick glow of sparkling ash it's beautiful to see it all regrow 210313 what's it to you? who go blather from