Brahma:
In Hinduism Brahma is like what God is to Christians he is responsible for creating the world. The difference is that he is not worshipped by the people. He is said to be, "the lord of all creatures and beyond worship, and there are hardly any temples dedicated to him" . People within the highest level of the Hindu caste system call themselves Brahman named after the Hindu god Brahma. Brahma originally had five heads but, "one was cut off by Shiva after he slandered him" . Brahma belongs to the "triad of great gods" . The triad is also referred to as tirmurti. The other two gods within the triad are Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma's specialties within the triad are "ritual and liturgy" .
Shiva:
Shiva as noted earlier is also apart of the triad of the great gods. He is, "often spoken of as the lord of the beasts" . Shiva being the third tirmurti is a "deity whom all opposites meet and become resolved in a fundamental unity." When a group of men came to seek absolution from their sins, "Shiva dove into the earth as a bull and various parts of his body protruded and became the five Kadar's" . However it is not that temples that Shiva is within it is the landscape. Shiva has great power which is, "directly associated with his sexual abstinence" . It takes years of Parvati penance before he accepts her into himself. However Shiva's son Skanda is born out of himself and not Parvati because his semen would have burned her insides. It was said that Shiva's, "seed was to hot for Parvati to carry in her womb,? it was then carried to and placed in the river Ganges ? out of this Skanda was born" . He is the source of both Good and evil and is believed ...