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You are welcome to pick your own statue of the Mahadeva with which you feel affinity, or wish to receive energetically in your life.
This means that their proportions are correct and appropriate to house and give forth the energy of those aspects of consciousness called Mahadevas.
Everything in creation is intelligent energy, or consciousness, and the Mahadevas are primary aspects of this consciousness and should not be confused with God or the Godhead as understood in the West.
Shiva is also known as Maheshvar, the great Lord, Mahadeva, the great God, Shambhu, Hara, Pinakadhrik, bearer of the axe and Mrityunjaya, conqueror of death.
He is the spouse of Shakti, the goddess.
MahadevaShiva is also lord of all beings of the underworld, including bhutas (elementals), pretas (ghosts), and pishachas (flesh eaters) and the rest.