Siwa
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Siwa may refer to:
- 140 Siwa140 Siwa140 Siwa is a large and dark main-belt asteroid. It has a composition of a P asteroid. It was discovered by J. Palisa on October 13, 1874, and named after Šiwa, the Slavic goddess of fertility. Siwa has a very flat lightcurve, indicating a spherical body.The Rosetta comet probe was to visit Siwa...
, an asteroid - Siwa, Indonesian pronunciation of the Hindu god ShivaShivaShiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...
- Siwa (genus), spider genus in the Araneidae family
- Siwa OasisSiwa OasisThe Siwa Oasis is an oasis in Egypt, located between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea in the Libyan Desert, nearly 50 km east of the Libyan border, and 560 km from Cairo....
, an oasis in Egypt - Siwa, PanchtharSiwa, PanchtharSiwa is a village development committee in Panchthar District in the Mechi Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3970....
, a Village Development Committee in Nepal - Šiva, Slavic goddess of fertility
- Siwa, a Finnish retail chain of convenience storeConvenience storeA convenience store, corner store, corner shop, commonly called a bodega in Spanish-speaking areas of the United States, is a small store or shop in a built up area that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, toiletries, alcoholic and soft drinks, and may also offer money order and...
s, partly owned by Tradeka and Elanto. - Siwa cultureSiwa cultureSiwa culture was a Bronze Age nomadic culture in the Gansu Province area, China. It was first discovered in Siwashan , in the Lintao district , hence its name...
, a Bronze Age nomadic culture in the Gansu Province, China.