Brahma is the source, the seed and the creator of all things in this world.
Vishnu is concerned with the world of dreams, in which things are conceived [and] is associated with light . . . with the purpose of protecting the earth.
Shiva [is] the universal power of destruction in which all existence ends and from which it rises again. Shiva is given 1,008 names describing his different aspects. Shiva is pictured as white in color, for he is the embodiment of enlightenment.
— Priya Hemenway, Hindu Gods