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A gouache painting showing two figures. One has several faces which face different directions. The other has five heads in a line. The figures are wearing striped clothes. Shiva Pancanana (the Five-Headed One), with many arms and his tiger skin cloak, returned home one day to find a stranger with raised arms guarding the door of his house. Mother Parvati, Shiva's wife, earth goddess, unknown to him, had created a son from the dirt of her body that she had washed off whilst bathing. The evil god Shani refused to recognise the new child, and Parvati insisted he look on the boy's face. The glance of Shani severed the boy's head, and Shiva replaced it with an elephant's head. The boy's name was Ganesha.