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Seated Ganesha holding a bag of modaks, his broken tusk, an elephant goad, and snakes. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ca. 14th–15th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain Domains. Because Ganesha broke off his own tusk so that he could continue writing the Mahabharata, he is considered a god of learning, writing, and poetry.
Ganesha arises from a lotus held in her surviving left hand. Pala dynasty, ca. tenth century CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain The Birth of Ganesha. Parvati is the mother of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god. More details about her relationship with Ganesha can be found in his origin story and in Shiva’s mythology. Parvati and Kali
According to Ganesha, his parents were his world, and so in walking around them he had circled the globe. They relented with great pride and admiration, and he was married shortly thereafter. [12] Meanwhile, Karttikeya was greatly distressed at having lost the race so underhandedly, causing a lasting rift between him and the rest of the family.
By the time of the epics and the Hindu Puranas, Brahma’s stature and importance had declined in favor of other Puranic gods, such as Shiva, Vishnu, and Ganesha. Today there are only a handful of temples devoted to Brahma in India, though there are others throughout Southeast and East Asia devoted to the Buddhist Brahma.
Mythopedia is the ultimate online resource for exploring ancient mythology; from the Greeks and Romans, to Celtic, Norse, Egyptian and more.
Shiva, the destroyer, is the supreme god in Shaivite sects of Hinduism and spends his time meditating in the Himalayas. Often seen smearing himself with ashes and visiting cremation grounds, he is a god of lust and masculinity. His followers worship him through lingas, or phallic symbols.
Collection Hindu Gods. Deities of the Hindu pantheon throughout the millennia. Hinduism is a major world religion, with one of the longest-surviving pantheons in history.
The decline of the earlier Vedic gods in the Hindu Puranas coincides with the rise of the popular gods of today: Shiva, Vishnu, Ganesha, and Devi (or Shakti), the supreme goddess. Though the Vedic gods are still depicted as mighty and worthy of respect, they have been overshadowed by newer gods.
Tonatiuh’s existence as the fifth sun of the Aztecs was brought about by the sacrifice of the god Nanahuatzin. Setting the sun in motion required many more deaths, and his own eventual demise will signal the end of the world.