09-16-2010, 12:59 AM
(09-15-2010, 06:22 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: so Clad, if you were Hindu and in India, you'd be swimming with Ganesh! a very cool god~
Ganesh is the Hindu God of knowledge and the remover of obstacles or God of elimination of troubles. He is also called Ganapati (leader of people), Buddhividhata ( god of knowledge ), or Vighnahara (god to remove obstacles). In fact Lord Ganesh has at least 108 names. He is one the most important Gods in the Hindu religion so that all sacrifices and religious ceremonies, all serious compositions in writing, and all worldly affairs of importance are begun with an invocation to Lord Ganesh.
Ganesh is usually depicted as an elephant head figure with a large pot belly. He has four hands with one hand always extended to bless people. Like most other Hindu gods, he has a ‘vehicle’, in his case a rat: this rat is usually shown at the foot of the god, but sometimes Ganesh is astride the rat. This unique combination of his elephant-like head and a quick moving rat vehicle represents tremendous wisdom, intellegence, and presence of mind.
The Egyptian equivalent is Thoth but he doesn't have so many attributes or a vehicle. (well sometimes a boat)
I suspect modern people misunderstand the ancient Gods. Ancient religion wasn't even really a religion so much as a way of describing nature. The Egyptian word for God was actually "ntr" or "neter". It is believed that this is the origin of the word nature.
In western languages the term God comes from "opening of the mouth", "shining forth", "light". I believe these are all related to building pyramids. We've been in a dark ages for amore than 4,000 years and no one noticed.