What was the height of Shiv?

According to some saints, lord Shiva is about 9 feet tall. Once sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev had said in an interview that Shiva is double the length of an average Indian woman. Ancient Indian women's average height was 4.5 feet. At the time of Sati-Shiva wedding, he manifested a 9 feet giant appearance.
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Was Shiva 9ft tall?

Shankar Math is a Lord Shiva temple in Mount Abu. It is known for the 9ft tall Shiva Linga made of black stone which gives it the impression of Lord Shiva's dreadlocks. Devotees believe his third eye self-manifested on this Shiva Linga making Shankar Math highly revered.
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What is the real height of Lord Vishnu?

Lord Vishnu is in the form of Trivikrama(5th Incarnation of Lord Vishnu). Even then he could not see the lords full form. Hence he requested Lord to give him the form of Aadiseshar Snake . Here Lord Vishnu is close to 35 feet tall more than 20 feet wide with his left leg lifted onto the sky.
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What did Shiva look like?

What does Shiva look like? Shiva is usually depicted as white, from the ashes of corpses that are smeared on his body, with a blue neck, from holding poison in his throat. His wears a crescent moon and the Ganges River as decorations in his hair and a garland of skulls and a serpent around his neck.
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How old is Shiva God?

Although it is a sect, Shaivism is actually a precursor to Hinduism. Shaivites hold the belief that Shiva is the supreme god and does not depend on the trimurti to complete the cycle of the universe. This sect formed over 8,000 years ago, to a time that even predates the Vedic time period.
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What gender is Shiva?

Shiva and Vishnu

In Vaishnavism and Shaivism, God, Vishnu or Shiva respectively, is personified as male.
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Was Lord Shiva a human?

Many believe that God Shiva is a Sayambhu – which means He is not born from a human body. He was created automatically! He was there when there was nothing and He will remain even after everything is destructed. That is why; he is also loving called as the 'Adi-Dev' which means the 'Oldest God of the Hindu mythology.
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Does Jesus worship Shiva?

Christ spent the last phase of his life in the Himalayas. After regaining health, Christ established a 'math' (monastery) at the foothills of the Himalayas, probably in Kashmir. He worshipped Lord Shiva there for three years and achieved 'darshan' of Shiva.
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Was Shiva a half woman?

Ardhanareeshvara is a combination of three words “Ardha,” “Nari,” and “Ishwara” means “half,” “woman,” and “lord,” respectively, which when combined means the lord whose half is a woman. It is believed that the God is Lord Shiva and the woman part is his consort Goddess Parvati or Shakti.
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Does Shiva have a third eye?

His right eye is believed to be the sun, the left eye is the moon and his third eye represents fire. His left and right eyes indicate his activity in the physical world. Often Shiva is shown with half open eyes, signifying the never ending, ongoing nature of the birth and destruction of the universe.
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Which is the tallest Shiva?

The Statue of Belief or Vishwas Swaroopam is a statue of the Hindu God Shiva constructed at Nathdwara in Rajasthan, India. The statue opened on 29 October 2022. Currently, the Statue of Belief is the tallest statue of Lord Shiva in the World.
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Who is the tallest man in Hindu gods?

Matsya (Sanskrit: मत्स्य, lit.
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Who is the tallest person in Hinduism?

Iravan is generally known as Aravan (அரவான், Aravāṇ), also spelt as Aravaan in South India. He is revered as a deity in two southern Indian Hindu cults: the Kuttantavar cult (dedicated solely to Aravan), and the cult of Draupadi (Aravan's stepmother and Arjuna's wife).
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How tall was Krishna?

Lord krishna was around 5″8″ to 5″10″ but pandavas were 6 to 8″5″ feet tall. Among all pandvas karna and bheema were almost similar both were around 8″5″ arjuna was 7 feet and yudhishter was 7″9″ nakul and sahdev were 6″2″ . It is said krishna's height was equal to the average woman of that era.
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Who can defeat Shiva?

Nobody can defeat Lord Shiva.

Shiva is ONE of the Rudra and Shiva is also Mahadeva ( Trinity). Mahadeva is undefeated and Rudra is defeated a couple of time.
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Who was Shiva in love with?

Shiva and Parvati marry and between their love-making, discuss yoga. Parvati doesn't gain Shiva's attention because she is beautiful. She gains his attention because her inner light was brilliant.
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Did Shiva fall in love?

It is said that once back at Mount Kailash, Shiva and Parvati proceeded to have such passionate love making that the Gods feared for the future of the world and were forced to go to Nandi and beg him to intervene! From this union, Lord Kama was reborn just as Parvati had foretold.
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What is opposite of Shiva?

All of us have divine masculine (Shiva) aspects and divine feminine (Shakti) aspects to our being.
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Who is Shiva in Bible?

Biblical accounts similar to shiva

In the Book of Job, it was stated that Job mourned his misfortune for seven days. During this time, he sat on the ground with his friends surrounding him. Biblical mourning involved refraining from feasts, songs, and Temple rituals.
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Who is the oldest religion?

The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit.
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Who is the first god?

Who is Brahma? Brahma is the first god in the Hindu triumvirate, or trimurti. The triumvirate consists of three gods who are responsible for the creation, upkeep and destruction of the world. The other two gods are Vishnu and Shiva.
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Was Shiva a vegetarian?

According to the article, Shiva was originally Rudra, a minor Vedic deity. Then when he became associated with a non-Aryan deity, he became malicious and created trouble. Besides, this he was a non-vegetarian and was later 'tamed' by the Brahminical tradition.
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Where is Shiva alive?

In benevolent aspects, he is depicted as an omniscient Yogi who lives an ascetic life on Mount Kailash as well as a householder with his wife Parvati and his three children, Ganesha, Kartikeya and Ashokasundari. In his fierce aspects, he is often depicted slaying demons.
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Where is Shiva now?

Lord Shiva, the destroyer of the world, resides in Kailash Parvat.
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