Ganesha & Ganesa Macula - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

These sculptures are in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. These two similar Ganesha figures are from India. The one on the right is dated c.1000-1350, while the one on the left is dated c. 950-1000. They both depict the elephant-headed god with a headress and four arms each holding an object.

Wikipedia (visit link) adds:

"Ganesha ...is one of the best-known and most widely worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India and Nepal. Hindu sects worship him regardless of affiliations. Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to Jains, Buddhists, and beyond India.

Although he is known by many other attributes, Ganesha's elephant head makes him particularly easy to identify. Ganesha is widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles and more generally as the Lord of Beginnings and the Lord of Obstacles, patron of arts and sciences, and the deva of intellect and wisdom. He is honoured at the beginning of rituals and ceremonies and invoked as the Patron of Letters during writing sessions. Several texts relate mythological anecdotes associated with his birth and exploits and explain his distinct iconography."

And the Wikipedia article for the Ganesa Macula (visit link) informs us:

"Ganesa Macula is a dark feature on Saturn's moon Titan. It is named after the Hindu god Ganesha.

Ganesa has been tentatively identified as a cryovolcanic dome: the result of a mixture of water and ammonia erupting from the center of the dome and spreading out to form a pancake-like deposit."

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