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Story Planning: Ganesha the Remover of Obstacles

For my storybook I intend to write about the God Ganesha and the iconography associated with him. For my introduction I intend to use the book Hindu Gods & Goddesses by Sunita Pant Bansal, which I found a copy of at my house, to talk about the different iconography's associated with Ganesha and what they symbolize.

Hindu Gods & Goddesses Notes:

  • Elephant head represents wisdom, understanding, and a discriminating intellect
  • The right tusk represents wisdom
  • The left tusk represents emotion
    • The broken left tusk represents the idea that one must conquer emotions with wisdom
  • The four arms represent that the lord is omnipresent and omnipotent
    • The ax in the upper right hand represents that one should cut wordily attachments and conquer emotions
    • The lotus in the upper left hand also represents this
    • The lower right hand is shown in a blessing pose for his devotees
  • The tray of laddus represents that he bestows wealth and prosperity to his followers
  • The left side of the body symbolizes emotion
  • The right side of the body symbolizes reason
  • The mouse symbolizes the ego that a person can have
    • The mouse being a vehicle symbolizes that one must control ego in order for a person to gain wisdom
  • The color of the clothes he wears also symbolize something
    • The yellow symbolizes purity, peace, and truthfullness
    • The red symbolizes the activity in the world

A picture of Ganesha

I'll probably use this image or something similar to it to show ganesha with all his iconography.

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  1. Laura GibbsSeptember 21, 2017 at 11:00 PM

    Hi Trishna! Just a quick note: the story planning is for the reading/story assignments you are doing each week, not really for the Storybook. So it's fine that you did this next time, but the idea with the story planning would have been to do follow-up research on Sita Sings the Blues, which was the unit you did this week. I hope that makes sense... and for this week it's fine; just remember for next time that the story assignment is connected to the reading you did earlier in the week; the Storybook project is something separate. :-)

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