Giaco el vecio
10 months ago
Keep Calm...
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eh eh ;-)
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tony baldwin
10 months ago
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(painting by tony baldwin)

Tangentially appropriate, Ganesha, also known as Ganyapati, is the god of knowledge, wisdom, education, writing, academia, and, oddly, new business ventures, as well as overcoming obstacles.

He in some ways is parellel to the Egyptian god, Thoth, only with an elephant head instead of an ibis.

(I have a D.Div in comparative religion and mythology...bet you didn't know that!)
tony baldwin
10 months ago

wikipedia wrote:
He holds his own broken tusk in his lower-right hand and holds a delicacy, which he samples with his trunk, in his lower-left hand. The motif of Ganesha turning his trunk sharply to his left to taste a sweet in his lower-left hand is a particularly archaic feature. [37]... In the standard configuration, Ganesha typically holds an axe or a goad in one upper arm and a noose in the other upper arm.
...as depicted in my painting, although mine has a lotus, not a noose, which is also common in some depictions of Ganesha.
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