![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Realising his error, Shiva then sent for a new head with which to make the boy whole again but the nearest at hand was of an elephant. At the commotion, Parvati rushed from her bath and screamed that her son had been killed. Not believing the boy was his son, and thinking him an impudent beggar, Shiva called up the bhutaganas demons who fought the boy and eventually managed to distract him with the appearance of the beautiful Maya and, whilst he admired the beauty, they lopped off his head. However, Shiva returned one day and, finding the boy guarding the room where Parvati was bathing, he enquired who he was. The boy was in fact created out of earth and clay to keep her company and protect her while Shiva went on his meditative wanderings. With Parvati, Shiva had a son, the god Ganesha. Shiva is the destroyer who ends the cycle of time which, in turn, begins a new Creation. ![]()
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