Perhaps the most intriguing is Ganesha, a four-armed, elephant-headed god often depicted ... By devoting oneself sincerely to ...

MUMBAI, India (AP) — A large idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha sat in the back of an open truck traveling along a busy Mumbai street, dwarfing other objects on the road. Hundreds of ...

Animals hold a revered place in the Hindu pantheon. Ganesh, the elephant-headed god of prosperity and wisdom, and Narasimha and Hayagriva, the respective lion and horse-headed avatars of Vishnu ...

Tens of thousands of devotees gathered in Mumbai on Tuesday to bid farewell to the Hindu god Ganesha after a ten-day festival celebrating his birth. (AP Video by Rafiq Maqbool and Mahesh Kumar ...

Every year for 10 days, Mumbai immerses itself in a frenzy of paying homage to the elephant-headed god Ganesha, the Hindu deity of wisdom, knowledge and good fortune. During this event, ...

Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu deity, is invoked for beginnings, such as a new house or business or the start of any project. So his presence was doubly appropriate at the first of what ...

A group of devotees hoist a giant idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha as they prepare to dunk it in the Arabian Sea, marking the end of the 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India ...