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Shiva or Shiv or Sivan or Shivan is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.
Shiva , Sheeva , or Siva may also refer to:
Religion
Shiva (Judaism) , the Jewish ritual of mourning for seven ("shiva") days after the burial of an immediate relative
Shiva, the supreme soul of
Brahma Kumaris religion
Shivā (ending with long 'a'), another name of
Parvati , Shiva's consort
Places
People
Shiva (actor) (born 1983), Tamil actor
Shiva (rapper) (born 1999), Italian rapper
Vandana Shiva (born 1952), physicist, philosopher, ecofeminist, environmental activist, and writer
Cosma Shiva Hagen (born 1981), German actress
Shiva Ahmadi (born 1975), Iranian-born American visual artist
Shiva Ayyadurai (born 1963), Indian-born American scientist and entrepreneur
Shiva Raichandani (born 1993), British dancer
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
Atom Shiva , an Image Comics character
Shiva (Āstraverse) , main protagonist of an Indian film franchise, portrayed by Ranbir Kapoor
Sheeva , a Mortal Kombat character
Shiva (Final Fantasy ) , a summonable ice elemental in the Final Fantasy franchise
Shiva (Streets of Rage character) , a character in the Streets of Rage video game series
Shiva, a fictitious strain of Ebola virus from Tom Clancy's novel
Rainbow Six
Shiva, a Bengal tiger cared for and befriended by
King Ezekiel in The Walking Dead franchise
Shivans, the main antagonistic race in the
Freespace series
Lady Shiva , a DC Comics character
Neosapien General
Shiva , a character from the cartoon TV series Exosquad
Shiva (Marvel Comics) , a robotic Weapon X enforcer in Marvel Comics
The Shiva , the award given to the league winners on the television series The League
Films
Literature
Shiva trilogy, by
Amish Tripathi , comprises: The Immortals of Meluha , The Secret of the Nagas, and The Oath of the Vayuputras
Shiva , a book by
A. B. Yehoshua
Television
Music
Computing
Science
Shiva Hypothesis , scientific theory concerning impact events
Shiva laser , built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the late 1970s
Shiva Star , a high-powered plasma weapon research
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term