Shiva is shakti or power, Shiva is the destroyer, the most powerful god of the Hindu pantheon and one of the godhead's in the Hindu Trinity. Known by many names - Mahadeva, Mahayogi, Pashupati, Nataraja, Bhairava, Vishwanath, Bhava, Bhole Nath - Lord Shiva is perhaps the most complex of Hindu deities.