Shiva (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Religion 2 Science 3 Scuba diving 4 Music and dance 5 People 6 Places 7 Fiction 8 Miscellaneous 9 Finance 10 See also

Siva, Shiva, and similar may refer to:

[edit] Religion

• Shiva or Śiva or Shiv, Hindu God
• Shaivism, types of Hinduism devoted to Shiva
• Shivā (ending with long 'a'), another name of Parvati, Shiv's consort
• Shiva (Judaism), Jewish ritual of mourning
• Šiva or Šiwa, Slavic goddess

[edit] Science

• Shiva (strain), strain of Cannabis sativa subsp. indica
• Shiva laser, built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the late 1970's
• Shiva Star or Shiva, high-powered plasma weapon research project
• Shiva Hypothesis, scientific theory concerning impact events
• Siva (protein), pro-apoptotic signaling protein
• 1170 Siva, asteroid named after the god

[edit] Scuba diving

• Siva (rebreather), made by Carleton Life Support

[edit] Music and dance

• Shiva (singer), deceased house music singer
• Siva (song), song by The Smashing Pumpkins
• Siva Samoa, type of Samoan dance often performed at weddings

[edit] People

• Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire
• Vandana Shiva, physicist, philosopher, ecofeminist, environmental activist, and writer
• Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia

[edit] Places

• Živa, a place in Serbia

[edit] Fiction

• Shiva, a fictitious strain of Ebola virus from the novel Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
• Shiva, summonable ice elemental in the Final Fantasy series
• Shiva (film), 1989 Telugu film by Ram Gopal Varma
• Shiva (Marvel Comics), Marvel Comics program designed to destroy Weapon X experiments like Wolverine
• Lady Shiva, DC Comics character
• Kaiyanwang, fictional character from 3×3 Eyes, was also called Shiva
• Siva, fictional character from The Tribe, played by Monique Cassie
• Sheeva, Mortal Kombat character
• Shiva, the ultimate villain in the anime Shurato

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Shiva crater, meteor crater in the Indian Ocean west of India
• Shiva, series of Virtual private network gateways made by Eicon
• Shiva Smart Tunneling (SST), simplistic UDP-based VPN tunneling protocol
• SIVA, 21st Century marketing approach entailing Solution, Information, Value, and Access
• Siva (bird)
• Neosapien General Shiva from the cartoon TV series "Exosquad"

[edit] Finance

• SIVA or Simplified Individual Voluntary Arrangement, pending UK insolvency process
• SIVA SF or Industrial Development Corporation of Norway

[edit] See also

• Siwa
• Sieve
• Shiv
• Shiver
• Yeshiva