The iconography of Kartikeya varies significantly he is typically represented as an ever-youthful man, riding or near an Indian peafowl, called Paravani, adorned with weapons and sometimes with an emblem of a rooster in the flag he holds. He is found in many medieval temples all over India, such as the Ellora Caves and Elephanta Caves. Archaeological evidence from the 1st-century CE and earlier, where he is found with the Hindu god Agni (fire), suggests that he was a significant deity in early Hinduism.
Kartikeya is an ancient god, traceable to the Vedic period. Both Muruga and Subrahmanya refers to the God Kartikeya. While a sector of people criticized such a theory and stated that its merely imagination. One based on Aryan Vedic religion and the other based on Dravidian folklore religion. There is a recent controversy on God Muruga stating that the pre Sangam era South Indian version of Muruga was fused with the North Indian Vedic version of Subrahmanya after Sangam era where previously both were considered as two individual different gods. Many times Murugan is regarded as the Tamil God. An important deity in the Indian subcontinent since ancient times, Kartikeya is particularly popular and predominantly worshipped in South India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia as Murugan. He is a son of Parvati and Shiva, brother of Ganesha, and a god whose life story has many versions in Hinduism. Kartikeya ( Sanskrit: कार्त्तिकेय, romanized: Kārttikeya), also known as Skanda, Kumara, Murugan ( Tamil: முருகன்), Shanmugha ( IAST: Ṣaṇmukha) and Subrahmanya, is the Hindu god of war.
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