The Hindus have some 330 million different faces of god. Shiva IS one of the three main ones: the other two being Vishnu and Brahma.
The Hindus are very "liquid" with their attitudes about God. They do, however, have some very strange ideas about life and death.
SUTTEE was where widows LEAPED into their dead husband's funeral pyre. That is illegal now.
The SADHUS are an all together VERY, VERY strange. A Sadhu and swami, sadhu also spelled saddhu, in India, is a religious ascetic or holy person. The class of sadhus includes "renunciants" of many types and faiths. You want the weirdest and most bizarre? Check out what some of these men do.
The Chinese are very easy to figure our: luck and money are their two "gods" and their lives all revolve around money.
You all knew, of course, that the Catholic term “nun” was shortened from renunciant, right?