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Hinduism: Gods, Scriptures and Paths
Ganeśa
Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings
A study of the mythology, iconography and worship of Ganesha, drawing on the Puranic birth stories and on the god's festival in Maharashtra. Courtright reads the elephant-headed god through both textual history and psychoanalytic theory, an approach that later attracted controversy.
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