Ganesh (1)

Although I am not Hindu, like many non-Hindus, I have a fondness for Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, who is also a god named Vinayaka in Buddhism. Known as the foremost remover of obstacles, some accounts have him sitting in the doorway between time and space, where he removed the obstacles that had prevented the universe from happening. There are scriptural and apocryphal tales -- one of the latter is that Ganesh was transcribing the epic Mahabarahta when his pen wore out so he broke off one of his tusks and wrote with it. In any case, he is a patron saint of wisdom, intellect, and writers.