Lord Ganesh playing the Uilleann pipes

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ceadach wrote:And yet Shri Ganesh Ji has much to recommend to himself. He is the remover of obstalces

Perhaps the Remover of Obstacles can remove those that you have regarding the computer! :lol:

I find him very handsome.
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First, you must give up eating the beef .....
qui jure suo utitur neminem laedit
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jsluder wrote:A quick google image search for: ganesh piper ...

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From http://www.pheelan.com/goofystuff.html

May not be the one you're looking for, but it's close. :)
Sacriledge!

Ganesh plays the kazoo!

I believe Parvati, Ganesh's mom, showed off the baby Ganesh
to the god Indra, whose gaze incinerated Ganesh's head.
Shiva (I think something like this is right) then went
to the gods for reparations and they said anything
that Shiva next looked out, its head would become
the baby's head. Guess what Shiva looked at?

Yes, Ganesh's vehicle is a mouse--often it's there
in the statues, with a saddle.

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Kate Bush is one of those plain looking women who can be dolled up real well to look better than she does. BTW, here's a picture of her playing pipes:
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Ganesh is okay, but nothing to lose your head over. :D

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dubhlinn wrote:
ceadach wrote:
Ye really got to get a hold of Nano so..

He is the prime suspect.
Ah, you mean Nanohedron??? Indeed we are kindred souls and
co-conspirators. 8) :thumbsup:
I had a feeling that he was near..
probably looking over your shoulder..

I dunno..you pipers..

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s1m0n wrote:.... the complexity and well, profoud ridiculousness of it is very very similar.
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Perhaps the Remover of Obstacles can remove those that you have regarding the computer! I find him very handsome.

I too find him very lovable, as do millions of Indians. In the story of Ganesh's head that heard, Lord Shiva promised a replacement noggen to his Mrs. ( Parvatiji) who was understandably irriate over having her lad's head fried. Even the Lord of Destruction has his domestic issues...:wink:

I have no obstacles with computer use, I simply believe over dependance on anything, barring air, food and water has it's dangers. Part of that whole striving for balance thing.

As to Kate Bush, she reminds me too much of a certain ex of mine, who was a vocalist. A good friend of mine quite literally worships Kate, and even has a small shine made in her honor... very, very creepy indeed.

First, you must give up eating the beef .....
Done. I don't eat red meat and I don't believe in killing unless it's for reasons of personal spite...
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Cool!!!!!I always dreamt of living in a cave! Have any stalagmites ???
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The way I heard it ...

Parvati gave birth to Ganesh while Shiva was out roaming the universe.

She went to bathe and placed young Ganesh at the door with instructions to let no one enter the house while she was in the bath.

As it happened, Shiva came home just then.

Ganesh refused him entry, as his mother had instructed, so Shiva cut off Ganesh's head.

Parvati heard the commotion and came out to discover what had happened. When Shiva learned that he had beheaded his own son, he immediately ran out to find a replacement, and of course, he came back with an elephant's head.

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Well, I think we've got it straight now.

I was just paying a credit card bill by telephone, and the woman I spoke to had a certain accent. I asked her where she is, and she said, "Mumbai."

So I asked her to tell me how Ganesh got an elephant's head. She told me the story of Parvati's bath. (But of course, these things often show up with different stories in different parts of the literature, so maybe the other version is just as correct.)

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bradhurley wrote:A friend of mine has a photo of Kate Bush playing (really just pretending to play) the uilleann pipes, but that's one I've never seen on the internet -- Google searches just turn up mentions of Liam O'Flynn playing on her albums. It's quite the photo; she's a bit more attractive than Lord Ganesh.
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Hmm, I dunno, I think my image was more realistic ... :really:

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Thanks, Peter -- it's been years since I've seen that photo!

So, did the elephant get Ganesh's head? It would only be fair.
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Not much mention of the elephant, I'm afraid.
Probably just had to settle for a better
incarnation. Life in Indian mythology is no
bowl of cherries, guy!

Ganesh is quite charming, sometimes being depicted
with a baby's body. And the mouse with a saddle.

When you're there in India you actually start to become
a functional polytheist--there are all these shrines
and people chanting and doing pujas and, if you
join in (which is fun) you become one of them
for pretty much the same reasons they are.
It's a wonderfully colorful world, full of more gods
and goddesses than you'll ever remember,
and amazing mythology, multi-leveled, most
stories having a comic book level interpretation
and also a profound interpretation, hidden
meanings with suggestive clues and hints
on the surface.

Shiva, Ganesh's dad (Parvati the mother, she human,
by the way) is also allied with Kali (or Durga),
who was created by the gods to destroy the
Buffalo Demon. The latter was hard to kill because
his blood, if it touched the ground, made more demons.
Kali, therefore, bit off his head and drank his blood,
then, drunk on his blood, went on a killing rampage
herself. Shiva was induced to lie down in her
path and she danced on him--you don't touch people
with your feet in India, the ultimate insult--her tongue
stuck out in surprise and she came to her senses.

But the pictures of this have a necklace of severed heads
round Kali's neck, which is in the shape of a penis,
and Shiva, who is being danced on, looks remarkbably
glad about it, and the picture turns out to be
depicting sexual intercourse between Shiva and
Kali, his Shakti, and understanding that story
takes one to the center of life and death....

Well, why not add bagpipes?
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No relation to Lludd by chance?
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