Shiva

Shiva is the God of Destruction, Meditation, Yoga, Time and Dance; The Destroyer of Evil; Parabrahman, Supreme Being. He is the member of Trimurti. He is the father of Ganesha and Karthikeya and the husband of Shailaja Devi.

Etymology
Main Article: Shiva Sahasranama

The word 'Shiva' means auspicious, propitious, gracious, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly. The word Shiva is used as an adjective in the Rig Veda (approximately 1700–1100 BC), as an epithet for several Rigvedic deities, including Rudra. The term Shiva also connotes "liberation, final emancipation" and "the auspicious one", this adjective sense of usage is addressed to many deities in Vedic layers of literature. The term evolved from the Vedic Rudra-Shiva to the noun Shiva in the Epics and the Puranas, as an auspicious deity who is the "creator, reproducer and dissolver".