Shiva

Shiva is a god in Hinduism. According to Indian mythology, he is the youngest among the trinity of gods - Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh.

Mahesh, popularly known as Shiva, has been assigned a duty of final dissolution of the world when the time comes, but only for regeneration. He destroys not for destruction, but for creation. Shiva, the third member of the Hindu Trinity, the destroyer of what Vishnu is the preserver and Brahma is the creator, is properly Brahma undoing what he has made with a view to reincarnation.

He married Parvati, the daughter of mountain king Himvan and the queen Mena. He has two sons, namely Ganesh, and Kartikeya.

Vishnu representing, as it were, death issuing in life, and Shiva life issuing in death, the transition point, and Brahma, who, by means of them, "kills that he may make alive." He is worshipped as Mahadeva or the great god, and his worshipers are called Shaivas, as distinct from those of Vishnu, which are called Vaishnavas. The Linga is his symbol, in emblem of the creation which follows destruction.

See also the Bible, Psalm xc. 3. for comparison.