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Demigods - Lord Shiva - Mahakalabhairava
 
Mahakalabhairava - Lord of Time, Personification of Death  

 

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This is the Great Black Bhairava, one of the manifestations of Shiva's wrath, in his form of Mahakala. With his necklace of human skulls, with eight arms, and accompanied by a black dog, he appears at the moment of the destruction of the world.