Bhairab

The origin of lord Bhairava back or kal Bhairab in the history of “Dakshayani” or Sati (wife of Shiva)
 








Sati was daughter of the king of gods Daksha and had decided to marry Shiva against the advice of her father, who thought Shiva as an ascetic, he then combined animals and demons against Shiva.
 

One day Daksha organized a yagna ritual a sacrifice where he invited all except the God Shiva and Sati. Later Sati arrived to the yagna where Daksha was speaking openly against Shiva. Sati could not bear to hear her husband insulted and threw himself into the sacrificial fire. When Shiva learned he destructed the yagna, killed Daksha. Then he took the body of Sati on his shoulders and ran around the world madly falling in love, running for days as he would destroy the world. Vishnu, the third god of the trinity, destroyed the body of Sati with his chakra (hard divine), which fell in pieces scattered all over. The places where these pieces have fallen are called the Shakti Peetha. Shiva took the form of frightening Bhairava or Bhairab to stand guard around these places. Hence Bhairava or Bhairab is invoked in prayers to destroy the enemy.