God Of Beginnings
When unable to command unruly ganas, the cosmic elements, pramatha the innumerable, bhuta the unfathomable, yakshas the unending, and rakshasa the imperishable, Brahma commemorated Ganesha, and Ganesha commanded them, helping him create a world to rule, number, span, end and decay - the mortals’ world. Vishnu, before he vanquished Bali, invoked Ganesha. Shiva did so before he destroyed Tripura. Durga invoked Ganesha before she killed Mahishasura. The great serpent Shesha, prayed to Ganesha before it lifted the earth on its hood. Kamadeva did so before he shot his arrows of love for conquering the universe, and sage Vyasa, remembered the deity before he composed the great epic Mahabharata. As patron of letters, in learning rituals Ganesha precedes Saraswati, the goddess of learning, and as revealed in the universally uttered Ganesha-mantra: Shri Ganeshaya Namah, Lakshmi - Shri, the goddess of abundance, reaches the commemorator even before he completes the hymn. A belief, tradition, or a literary culture, even a number of medieval texts in Persian begin with invocation to Ganesha.
A trans-sectarian divinity in the Hindu pantheon, Ganesha has a status on par with, or rather above the great Trinity for it was with his help that Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, the Trinity, functioned.
Shiva revives Ganesha by transplanting the elephant head on his torso and nominates him as commander of ganas, but all this amounts to mere correction of the error he committed and to pacify an enraged mother threatening to destroy the universe unless her son was revived, and Shiva knew she could do it.
Om Namah Shivay.
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