Ganesha

About Ganesha. He is one of the more interesting Hindu deities( there are lots n lots of Hindu Gods;a mixture of the ´pure’ , the pagan , and perhaps the tribal. Not very different from many other religions ). His form is interesting. A man with a head of an elephant , a big belly, 4 hands. His means of transportation is the mouse. It really is. And he likes to eat round yellow sweets called ladoos. Oh yeah. My kind of God. 

When one has an elephant head and a belly,one is liable to be represented in so many ways. Perhaps no other deity has been subject to as many representations.  Ganesha represents bright optimistic stuff. Success. Luck. So he is everywhere. In houses, in temples , on car dashboards, in shops, restaurants.

So much everywhere,that rustam has to know. He is in a taxi cab.  Ganesha looks on with a kind of benevolent resignation. What is that ? My rambling explication of symbolism in religion is not very adapted to the situation. This is Worse than the birds and the bees. Guess I panic. Ganesha is a super-héros, rustam, says the mother improvising unabashedly.  Like Batman Spider-Man and Hulk. Il tue des méchants. How did he get his elephant’s head ? Let’s tell him the truth, it’s always easier. His dad décapitated him by mistake. And then fixed him up with the head of the first being he found. And what happened to the baby elephant?Rustam is sad. Avec Raison. It’s not nice to cut off heads of animals. Oh he grew it back. Regenerated. Like lizards tails ?

Good enough. We talk of lizards. Ganesha smiles on. Benevolently.