Alola is one of the names of  God Śiva (Siva). Lola means unsteady or unstable. Śiva is conceptualised as a calm and quiet ascetic, and so he is known as Alola. For this calm and quiet appearance, and his unwavering state of being in a divine, Yogic trance, he is also known as Acañcala or Sthāṇu.