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… the priest-deity of sacred speech — not a reference to the elephant-headed deity known today. The Ganapatya tradition reads this hymn as prophetic of Gaṇeśa; that is a traditional …

Elder son of Shiva and Parvati, invoked first in every rite as the remover of obstacles and patron of letters. His circumambulation of his parents over chasing the cosmos remains t…

… , and clears them for those whose intention is sincere. The elephant head, broken tusk and single companion mouse are not decorative — each is read as a working diagram of the disc …

… with the head of the first creature found facing north, an elephant. This is the version most widely known and most often illustrated. It is not the only one. The **Brahmavaivart …

{{image:entity-ganesha-005-portrait|Gaṇeśa seated, elephant head with one intact and one broken tusk, four arms holding an aṅkuśa, pāśa, modaka, and a hand in abhaya mudrā …

Beyond the beloved remover of obstacles: the Gaṇapati Atharvaśīrṣa reveals Gaṇeśa as the primordial sound Om itself, the visible Absolute, and the presiding deity of the Mūlādhāra …

While popularly revered worldwide as the beloved elephant-headed remover of obstacles, the esoteric tradition of ancient Hindu philosophy reveals Lord Gaṇeśa in a vastly …

Ancient and medieval Hindu builders treated stone as an instrument of optics, acoustics, geology and celestial alignment. Eleven wonders — from a solar sundial of zodiac pillars at…

… r:** the three-headed Sadāśiva monolith. **The location:** Elephanta Caves, Gharapuri island, Mumbai, Maharashtra. **The science:** cut from solid basalt between the 5th and 8th …

An epic cosmic event where the celestial Devas and the demonic Asuras form a temporary alliance to churn the primeval Ocean of Milk, extracting the nectar of immortality (Amrita) a…

The spectacular manifestation of Goddess Durga from the combined fiery anger of the gods to defeat the shape-shifting buffalo demon Mahishasura, who held a boon of near-invincibili…

How Viṣṇu honoured every clause of the tyrant Hiraṇyakaśipu's impossible boon by emerging as Narasiṃha — half man, half lion — at twilight, on the threshold, across his lap, tearin…