The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c11.58.4

v1.c11.58.4

Again, as this organ represented the Creator and the sun, all were typified under such characters, as Bacchus, Dionysius, Hercules, Hermes, Mahādeva, Śiva, Osiris, Jupiter, Molech, Baal, Ashur, and innumerable others".²⁴ Most of the emblems here noticed are associated with Śiva. The bull, the type of fecundity, is his vehicle, the three pronged staff is his arm, and the serpent his ornament. Universally his image is the upright stone, dressed or undressed, and from the Island of Java to the furthest limit of Scandinavia, there is not a country where these uprights do not testify to the once prevalent currency of Śiva's worship in some form or other over a large tract of the earth. But there is nothing in all this necessarily to lead to the conclusion that Śivaism was non-Aryan, borrowed from the aborigines of India, and not self-evolved as the legitimate sequence of the oviparous theory of genesis, or of some other diseased forms of philosophical dogmatism.