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Shaivism
A god whose dance destroys worlds, worshipped by hermits and kings; a symbol of both wildness and order, secrecy and spectacle. Before temples and mantras, before the name Shiva echoed across the subcontinent, there was only a shadow: Rudra, the stormy deity of the Vedas.How did this shadow become the center of a tradition that would shape millions of lives? In the early centuries before the Common Era, the Indian religious landscape was a mosaic of Vedic hymns, regional cults, and emerging philosophies. Shaivism, the tradition that would crystallize around the figure of Shiva, did not appear…
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