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Indra and Sachi riding the five-headed divine elephant Airavata, folio from a Jain text, c. 1670–1680, painting in LACMA museum, originally from Amber, Rajasthan.. In Hindu puranas, the vehicle or mount of god Indra (Sakra in the Buddhist pantheon) is the white elephant named Airāvata, which possesses the ability to fly. [6]
A white elephant gift exchange, [1] Yankee swap [2] or Dirty Santa [3] [nb 1] is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during Christmas festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is to entertain party-goers rather than to give or acquire a genuinely valuable or highly sought-after item. [ 3 ]
Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's elephant whose name is the origin of the word jumbo (meaning "very large" or "oversized"). The African elephant was given the name Jumbo by zookeepers at the London Zoo. The name was most likely derived from the Swahili word jumbe meaning "chief". Lallah Rookh, elephant with Dan Rice's circus.
White Elephant, Dirty Santa, Yankee Swap. It's the Christmas gift exchange that goes by a hundred names, with thousands of different rules that vary family to family. But whatever you call this ...
Let's talk about the ultimate white elephant gift paradox – when you find something so ridiculously perfect that parting with it feels like giving away the last slice of pizza. These 25 gifts ...
Since white elephant exchanges often include family members of all ages, we made sure to include tons of great gifts for moms, gifts for grandparents, and gifts for teens.
This list of fictional pachyderms is a subsidiary to the List of fictional ungulates.Characters from various fictional works are organized by medium. Outside strict biological classification, [a] the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses; this list also includes extinct mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons, etc.
Since white elephant exchanges often include family members of all ages, we made sure to include tons of great gifts for moms, gifts for grandparents, and gifts for teen girls and teen boys.