the present tales of lord ganesha and his family. ganesha is born to goddess parvati as 'vinayak', but when he stands as an obstacle in the path of his quick-to-temper father, lord shiva, he is beheaded. on the insistence of parvati, he is resurrected with an elephant's head and is renamed as "vighnaharta" (remover of bbstacles) "ganesh" (leader of all troops). the show includes stories of ganesh's many incarnations and of other deities from the hindu pantheon, including (but not limited to) the mahavidyas, the navadurgas, incarnations of lord shiva, ganesh's brother lord kartikeya, lord vishnu, goddess lakshmi, lord brahma and goddess saraswati.