Say, about the creation of god Ganesh (the one with an elephant head). The militant god Shiva once went out hunting. His wife (sorry I had forgotten her name!) had nothing to do and she created a human-like living being out of clay, perhaps, and called her newborn son Ganesh. She got tired and went to take a bath and told Ganesh to guard the door.
At that time Shiva arrives from hunting. He sees that his wife is in the bath and there is some handsome masculine stranger in front of her door. Shiva tried to pass but Ganesh didn't let him go, and Shiva went mad and speared off Ganesh's head. Here comes Shiva's wife crying 'What have you done? You just killed your own son!'
Shiva was upset but he couldn't admit he was wrong. So he made the following decision: let his servants go and take the first animal they meet to him. The servants brought in an elephant. Shiva took elephant's head and put it instead of Ganesh's human head and made him alive.
