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You are closest to the Lord Ganesha. Althogh he has
an interseting feature of looking like and
elephant, his power makes him strong and
faithful. Lord Ganesh is the God to remove all
obstacles in life. And because of his unique
figure, one of his forces is that he looks
beyond one's outer apearance. You are most like
this Great God because you are strong and not
all that judgemental but, you are human and it
can be something in you like all the rest of
us. Well Lord Ganesh like many other gods and
goddess are just all incarnations of the one
almighty god.
What Hindu God or Goddess are you like?
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The above is EXACTLY what I would have predicted and whined for, and the Indian god I like best, in any case. Just like Kaligrrrl, who ended up with Kali. Ha!
I like Ganesh as sort of the Hindu incarnation of Athena, and I actually like Hindu mythology and history quite a lot -- one of the best undergraduate courses, possibly the Ur-Liberal Arts course at Northwestern, was Introduction to Hinduism, taught by the same prof who did Introduction to Buddhism, and clearly LOVED the subjects and interwove them. I got to read the Upanishads, the Rg Vedas, the Ramayana and all kinds of stuff. I REALLY loved that course.
Strangely, though (or not, knowing me) where I really get this appreciation of Ganesha from is a young adult fiction book by Malcolm J. Bosse (who is an English author who is quite excellent in EVERYTHING he writes for adolescents... but this is my favorite) called, simply, Ganesh. It's a wonderful story about an American boy who is born and grows up in India, but who is orphaned at 12 and must go back to a United States he's never seen. And he moves in with an aunt who is about to lose her old family house to "eminent domain" and a McDonalds franchise or a freeway or something. So the boy uses satyagraha or "a firm grip on the truth", in other words, Gandhi's nonviolent, unswerving civil disobedience, and gets a bunch of middle school students to go on a hunger strike with him. WONDERFUL book.
Other than random appreciations of other people's Quizilla bits and pieces, I don't have a lot to say, just a lot of words to say it in, for now.
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