[6] The Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered cosmology, mythology, and relationship between gods, ethics, yoga, tirtha (pilgrimage) sites, bhakti, rivers and geography, and other topics.
[10][2][11] The text is an important source of historic information on different types and theology behind Shaivism in early 2nd-millennium CE.
[12] The oldest surviving chapters of the Shiva Purana have significant Advaita Vedanta philosophy,[6] which is mixed in with theistic elements of bhakti.
[18] Shiva is atman (soul) A pathologist diagnoses correctly, and cures illness through medicines.
220–3, Nos, 298–299 about another manuscript of the Siva Purana, which is divided into Two Khandas (Parts), the Purvakhanda and the Uttarakhanda.
[22] The text discusses goddesses and gods, dedicates parts of chapters praising Vishnu and Brahma, as well as those related to avatars such as Krishna.
[25] The text also presents the Brahman as satcitananda theme, with masculine and feminine Shiva-Shakti as a unity, and perception of plurality-discrimination as a form of nescience.
[25] These ideas, states Klaus Klostermaier, are similar to those found in Devi-related Puranas and Shakti Literature.