Template:Friend of the Week

The Sivatherium was a genus of mammals in the Giraffid family that closely resembled the modern Okapi. By body mass, one species of Sivatherium (Sivatherium gigantus) is almost certainly the largest Giraffid, and probably the largest Ruminant ever (mammals that have multiple stomachs). Having gone extinct over 10000 years ago (most likely hunted to extinction) there isn’t much else to say about the Sivatherium so I’d like to bring up something interesting about the design of the Friend. The name Sivatherium means roughly “Shiva’s Beast”, as they were known to have lived in India. If you’ll take a look at the Friend version, there’s a few things that probably catch your eye: The Snake around her neck, the Trident she wields and the ??? in her other hand. All three of these things are symbols of the Indian deity Shiva, and you can see them all in this picture. The Trident is called a Trishula, the … other thing is a two headed drum called a Damaru, and the snake is a symbol of fear and death. Shiva is also represented with a third eye, which, lo and behold, we can see upon our Friend.