Shiva, The Great God.
This story really describes how Shiva looks, the beggar in simple clothes holding his beggar bowl and trident. He is in eternal meditation up on his mountain peak in the Himalayas with his one possession , his old bull, Nandi. His role as the creator and the destroyer, two sides of one stone. He welcomes the disabled, crippled, hunchback, and he wears the rejected snakes upon his neck.
Sati, The Perfect Wife.
This is another version of the story of Sati, Shiva's wife. This one was quite different from Devee's version because in this one, Shiva offends Duksha before he is married to Sati and when Sati marries Shiva, Duksha tells her to never return. However she does return for the worship party and kills herself in shame of her father, which is much the same. Vishnu saves the world by chopping up Sati's corpse so that Shiva would return to his deep meditations.
The Tale of Uma Himavutee.
This is the tale of Sati reborn. Sati is reborn as the princess Uma daughter of the great king of the himalayas, whose love for Shiva is why Uma chose him as her father. Uma was very beautiful and once again thought only of Shiva for her husband. The gods even tried to help her in that the god Love shot Shiva with an arrow infused with love and desire. But Uma's beauty alone could not make the great god forget Sati and therefore she went to a hermitage, wore simple clothing, and ate little food and with this sacrifice Shiva finally came for her.
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