Gaṇeśa
the elephant-headed, remover of obstacles
earthGaṇeśa clears the path and blesses every beginning, breaking one tusk to write down the world's great story; to dream of him is to sense a friendly hand lifting the stone from your road before you have even asked.
Fragments
Asked to transcribe the endless epic without pause, he snapped off his own tusk for a pen and wrote through the night, on the single condition that he first understand each verse.
He sits round and content with a bowl of sweets, his enormous ears drinking in every prayer, and no journey, wedding, or venture begins until his name is spoken first.
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