Lord Shiva Mahadev in Hinduism was indeed Kirati God Paruhang. Lord Shiva's original name is Paruhang. Kiratis call him Paruhang in their Kirati language. But after the Aryan Khas people adopted Paruhang into Hindu culture he was given the Sanskrit name Shiva. Now, where do you think Lord Shiva abode/home is? It is in Mt. Kailash, Himalayas. Kiratis are the aboriginal of the Hiamlaays regions. This is even purely mentioned in Vedic books. Lord Shiva carries a buffalo horn. To the Aryan Khas people, anything that is associated with buffalo is taboo. But Kiratis eat buffalo meat as well as use its horn to make musical instruments including the buffalo horns. A buffalo horn is blown at the start of the Kirati festival Sakela. Here's what some scholars and historians have said about Lord Shiva and his identity. Dinesh Prasad Saklani said " It can be roughly asserted that Shiva-worship might have begun among the Kiratas in the mountainous regions of the Himalaya in pre-Vedic times, before the advent of Aryans. Shaivism, in some form, was the prevailing religion of the aboriginal Kiratas." - ( Ancient communities of the Himalaya, 1998) Shiv Kumar Tiwari said " The clear conception of Siva arose in the Upanisadic age. Siva as been, for the first time, explicitly mentioned as the Aryan god in the Svetasvatara Upanisad in the background of Yoni-Linga relationship. There was never mention of Siva as Aryan god in Rig Veda, the oldest text of Aryan". From here it can be ascertained that Siva was worshiped by the aboriginal Kirata before the advent of Aryan.” - (Tribal roots of Hinduism, 2002) G.P Singh said, “Kiratas along with other tribes non-conforming to Vedic teachings was classified as Mleccha(barbarians) in many early texts, in a sense that they were destroyers of Aryan. Hence the Siva was named as a destroyer in the Hindu Trinity. - (The Kiratas in Ancient India, 1990) John Marshall, John Hubert Marshall Sir said "When the Aryan found that their gods like Agni, Indra, Varun etc. were losing popularity and people did not worship the gods which they brought, rather they were worshiping Subra(Siva)and following Saivism, then they placed Sibarai worshiping under banned. At first, the Aryanised conquerers held this religion (Saivism) in disdain and placed in under a ban. But it did not help; ultimately peoples overcome such banned and Saivism continued to strive among the aborigines. At the same time to secure easy recognition by the aboriginal people, they placed Siva into Hindu pantheon". - (Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization, 1931)

• published: 10 Oct 2020
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