The following elephants or elephant-like figures occur in mythology and religion.
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Deities with elephant heads
Ganesh, the famous Hindu deity. Malini, a goddess associated with the birth of Ganesha Vinayaki, a Hindu goddess.
Mythological elephants
Airavata, an elephant ridden by the Hindu god Indra. The eight Ashtadiggajass described as supporting the world in Hindu cosmology Erawan, the Thai version of Airavata Gajasura, an elephant demon from Hindu mythology Gajendra, from the Sanskrit text Gajendra Moksha Girimekhala, the elephant that carries Mara in Theravada Buddhism Kasogonagá, a Toba deity described as either an elephant or an anteater. Supratika, a name for several elephants in Hindu mythology
Other instances
An elephant god doubtlessly existed in the predynastic period of Egypt, as indicated from the statuette of a man with the head of an elephant. Jean Vercoutter discovered this in a temple in Sudan, Wad ban Naqa. In 1970, during the German expedition of Musawwarat es-Sufra at Sudan, graffito was found on the eastern outside wall of the Temple of Mut of an elephant-headed figure wearing a sun disk.