Kartikeya: Kartikeya, the second son of Shiva, is also called Subramaniam, Murugan and Skanda. The story of his birth is also strange. Karthikeya is mainly worshiped in South India. People of Yazidi caste in Arabia also worship him, he is their main deity. He ruled under the name Skanda in a particular region of North Kuru, a region near the North Pole. Skanda Purana is named after him.
