Shiva (disambiguation)

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• Shiva or Sivan or Shivan, name of a Hindu god.
• Indian given name derived from name of the god Shiva.

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

• Shiva, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran
• Shiva crater, an apparent impact crater in the Indian Ocean, possibly associated with the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event

People

• Shiva (actor), a Tamil actor
• Shiva (singer) (1971–1995), house music singer
• Vandana Shiva, physicist, philosopher, ecofeminist (born 1952), environmental activist, and writer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Sheeva, a Mortal Kombat character
• Shiva (Final Fantasy), a summonable ice elemental in the Final Fantasy franchise
• Shiva (Marvel Comics), a computer program that spawns robots to destroy Weapon X experiment subjects
• Shiva (Streets of Rage character), a character in the video game series
• Kaiyanwang, a.k.a. Shiva, a fictional character from 3×3 Eyes
• Shiva, the ultimate villain in the anime Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato
• Shiva, a fictitious strain of Ebola virus from Tom Clancy's novel Rainbow Six
• Lady Shiva, a DC Comics character
• Neosapien General Shiva, a character from the cartoon TV series Exosquad
• Shiva's Guard, a powerful artifact in the Warcraft III game Defense of the Ancients
• The Shiva, the award given to the league winners on the telrvision series The League

Films

• Siva (1989 Tamil film), a film starring Rajinikanth
• Siva (1989 Telugu film), a film by director Ram Gopal Varma
• Shiva (1990 film), a remake of the Telugu film in Hindi by director Ram Gopal Varma
• Shiva (2006 film), another Hindi remake by Ram Gopal Varma
• Shiva (2008 film), by siblings Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz
• Shiva (2012 film), a Kannada film starring Shivrajkumar

Literature

• Shiva trilogy, by Amish Tripathi, comprises: The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, and The Oath of the Vayuputras

Television

• "Shiva" (Fear the Walking Dead), season 2, episode 7 - and the midseason finale episode of - Fear the Walking Dead
• "Shiva" (NCIS), a season 10 episode of NCIS

Computing

• SheevaPlug, a small form factor computer
• ShiVa, 3D game engine
• Shiva Corporation, a manufacturer of computer network products

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
• Shiva, a strain of Cannabis sativa subsp. indica

See also

• Shiv (disambiguation)
• Shivaji (1630–1680), founder of the Maratha Empire
• Shivans, the main antagonistic race in the Freespace series
• Shiver
• Sieve
• Siva (disambiguation)
• Siwa (disambiguation)
• Yeshiva