Ganesha
c. 200 CE – 2026 CEattested
Indian subcontinent
- Hindu
Elephant-headed remover of obstacles and god of beginnings, invoked before every enterprise. His father cut off his head and replaced it with the first one found, an elephant's.
Known for
- remover of obstacles
- the broken tusk
- invoked before all beginnings
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.