Śiva

Śiva is also called Mahadeva, the Great God. He is the yogi who lives an ascetic life on Mount Kailasa, patron of meditation and the arts, and also a householder with his wife Parvati and sons Ganesha and Kartikeya.

His emblems are the trident, the crescent moon, the river Ganga in his matted hair and a third eye that burns what it looks on. He is mostly worshipped as the lingam.