The act constitutes Shiva's duty to dharma, at the same time revealing his love for Parvati by assuring his return to life ...

Nowadays we look at Shiva as one of the trinity of Brahma Ji ... Then at the beginning of the Kali Yuga, towards the end of the Mahabharata, when the shift happened from Vedic worship to Puranic ...

Shiva instead commands that Darika will die at the hand of the goddess Kali. Mudiyettu is performed annually in Bhagavati Kavus, the temples of the goddess, in different villages along the rivers ...