up for your consideration is this very old bronze of lord Shiva Hindu God. This bronze looks as if it was gold gilded at one time there are traces of this all over the piece. Shiva is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being within Shaivism, one of the major traditions within contemporary Hinduism. Shiva is the \\\"destroyer of evil and the transformer\\\" within the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity that includes Brahma and Vishnu. In Shaivism tradition, Shiva is the Supreme being who creates, protects and transforms the universe.