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title: "Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know"  
description: "For thousands of years, historians, scholars, and his devotees have visualized, explored, and wondered about various representations of Lord Shiva."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-28  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1695/interesting-facts-about-lord-shiva-you-may-not-know  
category: "spiritual"  
tags: ["Lord Shiva", "Shiva", "Shiva facts", "Lord Shiva facts"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know

![Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1c0320d5-04e6-4781-84ed-67b06e450c97/images/2aef3eee-064d-4650-b542-38d5fe69217e.jpeg) ![Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1c0320d5-04e6-4781-84ed-67b06e450c97/images/afba54e8-0540-4f8e-81da-b735a4177c6f.jpeg) Lord Shiva is among the most ancient Hindu gods still worshipped today ![Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1c0320d5-04e6-4781-84ed-67b06e450c97/images/2c3d8e27-1dfb-4976-a3e0-52aaca151241.jpeg) Lord Shiva is known by 108 Names Most of the 108 names are common in Hindu boy's names ![Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1c0320d5-04e6-4781-84ed-67b06e450c97/images/df976954-4e48-4c52-b4fa-e2281b124988.jpeg) Lord Shiva is considered to exist in three independent states: nirgun, saguna and nirgun - saguna ![Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1c0320d5-04e6-4781-84ed-67b06e450c97/images/5ec9b913-fab6-4b57-a2de-9935a4adf58e.jpeg) Shiva’s female consort is variously shown as Uma, Sati, Parvati, Durga, Kali, and sometimes Shakti. ![Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1c0320d5-04e6-4781-84ed-67b06e450c97/images/c75db175-eb49-412c-a74b-7c649adf7450.jpeg) It is believed that the hot-tempered nature associated with the god Shiva is manifested in the volatile energy of the stone itself. ![Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1c0320d5-04e6-4781-84ed-67b06e450c97/images/84d0a6a2-6ac1-45f3-9525-88d326727e29.jpeg) Large Shiva Lingam forms are therefore often bathed in water and sandalwood paste to calm this energy before worship. ![Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1c0320d5-04e6-4781-84ed-67b06e450c97/images/066e03e1-49d0-4053-a1e4-f26a23fc3d42.jpeg) Shiva is portrayed as God of destruction in the form of Nataraja ![Interesting Facts about Lord Shiva You May Not Know](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/1c0320d5-04e6-4781-84ed-67b06e450c97/images/9e7a330b-7af1-4452-bfe8-f0199f51fc26.jpeg) Shiva Lingam association with healing for derived from cosmic sources- a healing force that derives from a cosmic or power of the universe.

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