All good, all good--and yeah, I understand the hell of trying to organise stuff. (IRL, I fear I am about as chaotic and disorganised as Kusuri-uri but damnit, it's my chaos and I know where stuff is in the chaos, LOL.)
As for whether it's a reference to Ganesha proper or a bodhisattva; in this case, especially if we're throwing in the Buddha-ised version of Ganesha that *does* seem to have been promoted rather heavily in Shingon Buddhism, the two need *not* be mutually exclusive. (And I figured this was why the elephant count was ongoing--I noticed the elephant obsession myself.)
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Date: 7 Dec 2008 08:42 am (UTC)but damnit, it's my chaos and I know where stuff is in the chaos, LOL.)As for whether it's a reference to Ganesha proper or a bodhisattva; in this case, especially if we're throwing in the Buddha-ised version of Ganesha that *does* seem to have been promoted rather heavily in Shingon Buddhism, the two need *not* be mutually exclusive. (And I figured this was why the elephant count was ongoing--I noticed the elephant obsession myself.)