Kartikeya -the god of war!

He's known by many names such as

Murugan, Arumukham, Skanda, Subrahmanya, Shanmukha,

Guha, Devasenapati, Kumara and Mahasena.

According to Vana Parva of Mahabharata, Skanda was born to Agni and Swaha.. for the purpose of destroying the growing army of demons and their leader Taraka,and to mary the beautiful cousin of Indra, Devasena ..

Swaha was in love with Agni and she approached him under the guise of Shiva (the wife of Angirasa,not to be confused with Shiv who is Rudra/Sankara).. Agni happily accepting her as his wife, because he him-self was in love with the wives of the seven sages.He married and copulated with Swaha thinking that she is Shiva (wife o f Angirasa) in the forest.

Swaha thought to her-self that if she was impregnated with the child then it would cause a outroar amongst the wives of the sages, hence she took the form of a bird to fly out of the forest easily carrying the seed of Agni, she then threw his seed away in a lake.

After she threw away the seed of Agni inside the lake she continued her conjugal play taking forms of six of the wives of the Saptarishis.. continuing her act she threw away Agni's seed six times inside the same lake on the first lunar day. Swaha could not take the form of Arundhati because of her extreme devotion to her husband Vashishtha.

When the sages knew of this incident they divorced their wives doubting their chastity and these wives of the six sages of the Spatarishis came to be known as the Krittikas.

Soon a child of terrible prowess was born out of the seed in the lake and the fact that the child was a cast-off, the sages named him as Skanda.The baby assumed its form on the second lunar day and grew to the size of a little child on the third and his limbs developed on the fourth. Having six faces, twelve limbs and sharp teeth, the child being surrounded by masses of red clouds flashing lightning he resembled the rising sun! Then seizing the bow used by Rudra to destroy the three cities, he uttered a terrible roar ,then the entire universe trembled at his voice!

Skanda became the foremost adept in the art of war and served under Indra as the generalissimo of his army and married Indra's cousin Devasena- who waited for her destined husband before he was even born.

Later on he went to destroy multiple mighty asuras like Tarakasura, kraunchasura, mahishasura, Shoorapadma etc... At one point time his worship was on an all time high in India. Everybody worshipped him for victory over enemies. He's the giver of power, strength, wealth, child, prowess, knowledge, women and immortality.

🙏 Namo Narasiṁha 🙏