This Shiva-Shakti relationship is also represented by the sensuous figures of Shiva as the half-man, half-woman or in images of human copulation the merging of the creative dualities of the universe itself.
 

[aras-image:7Am.028,,10,,,Figure 9 Devotional image of the god Shiva.]

[aras-image:7Ao.042.1,,10,,,Figure 10 Loving Couple.]