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korathota-designs:

Ganesha by Korathota Designs, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2010

“Parvati in several texts begs Shiva to give her a child, but he never relents. She does want to be a mother; it is Shiva, and the gods, who keep her from being one. The closest she comes to motherhood is with Ganesha…”
The best known story about Ganesha’s birth has “Parvati taking a bath and longing for someone to keep Shiva from barging in on her… As she bathes, she kneads the dirt that she rubs off her body into the shape of a child, who comes to life.
When Shiva sees the handsome young boy the child’s head falls off; it is eventually replaced with the head of an elephant, sometimes losing part of one tusk along the way…
Ganesha is the child of Parvati alone—indeed a child born despite Shiva’s negative intervention at several crucial moments.
Ganesha’s name means ‘Lord of the Common People’ (gana meaning the ‘common people’) or ‘Lord of the Troops’ (the ganas being the goblin hosts of Shiva, of whom Ganesha is the leader).
He is the god of beginnings, always worshiped before any major enterprise, and the patron of intellectuals, scribes, and authors.”Wendy Doniger in The Hindus - an alternative history 2009

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janelwritesprose:

maybe someday, somewhere,
someone will love me enough
to take five buses, two trains,
and a taxi, just to hold an umbrella
over my head when the rainfall
gets too thick and starts washing
away more than my worries

maybe someday, somewhere,
someone will tell me that they
believe in me - and mean it

and maybe someday is today
and somewhere is here
and someone is you

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