• Ravana and the AtmalingaShiva · GaneshaHow Shiva’s own linga came to rest at Gokarna, and why Murudeshwar is part of the same story.
• Chamundeshwari and MahishasuraChamundeshwariThe goddess’s victory over the buffalo demon, remembered in Mysuru’s name and its Dasara.
• The slaying of Chanda and MundaChamundeshwari · ParvatiHow the goddess Chamunda received her name.
• Kanakadasa’s windowKrishnaWhy devotees at Udupi see Krishna through a window in the western wall.
• Mookambika and MookasuraMookambikaThe goddess who silenced a demon before he could ask for his boon.
• Renuka and ParashuramaRenuka Yellamma · VishnuThe mother beheaded at her husband’s command and restored at her son’s request.
• The birth of KartikeyaKartikeya (Subrahmanya) · Shiva · ParvatiThe son born to defeat Tarakasura, and the battle remembered near Kukke Subramanya.
• How Ganesha got his elephant headGanesha · Parvati · ShivaSeveral tellings of the birth of the elephant-headed god.AI-created devotional illustration
• The Dharma Daivas of DharmasthalaShivaHow a Jain chieftain’s house became a temple of Shiva.
• The snake that sheltered a frogSaraswati (Sharada)Why Adi Shankara chose Sringeri, by tradition.
• Nilakantha: the poison in Shiva’s throatShivaWhy Shiva is called the blue-throated one.AI-created devotional illustration
• The goddess EkadashiVishnuThe origin of the eleventh-day fast.AI-created devotional illustration
• The birth of KrishnaKrishna · VishnuBorn in Kamsa’s prison and carried across the Yamuna to Gokul.