Talk:Ganesh Chaturthi

Mythology

Removed this section. Did not seem to have relevance to the festival per say. May be relevant to the ganesha article. Also no references provided.

""Mythology

Main article: Ganesha

The origin of the festival lies in the Holy Hindu scriptures which tell the story of Lord Ganesha. Lord Ganesha (or Ganapati) (the names mean "Lord [isha] or [pati] of Shiva's hosts [gana]") was created by Goddess Parvati, consort of Lord Shiva.

According to the legend, Lord Shiva, the Hindu God of resolution, was away at a war. His wife Parvati, wanted to bathe. Having no one to guard the door to her house, she conceived of the idea of creating a son who could guard her. Parvati created Ganesha out of the sandalwood paste that she used for her bath and breathed life into the figure. She then set him to stand guard at her door and instructed him not to let anyone enter.

In the meantime, Lord Shiva returned from the battle, but as Ganesha did not know him Ganesha stopped Shiva from entering Parvati's chamber. Shiva, enraged by Ganesh’s impudence, drew his trident and cut off Ganesha's head. Parvati emerged to find Ganesha decapitated and flew into a rage. She took on the form of the Goddess Kali and threatened destruction of the three worlds, heaven, earth and the subterranean.

Parvati was in a dangerous mood and, seeing her in this mood, the other gods were afraid. Shiva, in an attempt to pacify Parvati, sent his ganas, or hordes, to find a child whose mother is facing away from the child in negligence, to cut off the child's head and return quickly with it. The first living thing they came across was an elephant facing north, the auspicious direction associated with wisdom, so they returned with the head of the elephant. Shiva placed it on the headless body of Parvati's son and breathed life into him. Parvati was overjoyed and embraced her son, the elephant-headed boy whom Shiva named Ganesha, the lord of his ganas. Parvati was still upset, however, so Lord Shiva announced that everyone who worships Ganesha before any other form of God is favoured. This is why Ganesh is worshipped first at all Hindu occasions and festivals.""

Was the immersion always a part of Ganesh Chaturthi?

Lokmanya Tilak started the submerging act, but why? More research is required. It was not a religious practice previously to immerse the deity's idols.

History section

The History section is repeatedly been renamed as "Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak's Revival efforts". The problem is that the section has also info unrelated to Tilak and pre-dating him. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 15:51, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

It has been changed again, maybe it should have that as a subtitle inside that section PeterBennettfriedpies (talk) 15:43, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

References

The entire "In India" subsection of the Celebration, rituals and tradition section is unreferenced. This will prevent the article from being listed on the Main Page this year. Since there are over six weeks to go, hopefully this should be enough time for editors to rectify the problem. Thanks. —howcheng {chat} 16:52, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Moved to here

The following external link was in the 'See also' section — it belongs in the 'External links' section (or perhaps it doesn't belong at all):

• www.facebook.com/gajananmitramandal

~E:74.60.29.141 (talk) 05:11, 8 February 2013 (UTC)