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While painted red and black, this god distracts the wives of seven seers in the Pine Forest. This god has been compared to Dionysus for causing a rampage leading to the beheading (0[1])of Daksha after this god's first (20[1])wife (20[1])immolated herself. (20[8])In a (20[2])Purana (0[1])named after him, (20[2])this god was the judge of a contest between two other gods to locate the ends of a pillar (20[1]0[1])of fire. (20[1])This god received the epithet (20[1])Nilakantha (20[3])after (20[1])(*) drinking (10[3])the halāhala (10[3])poison (10[3])during (10[1])the Churning (10[1])of the Ocean, turning his throat blue. (10[3])This god is sometimes depicted as the lord of dance in his (10[1])Nataraja (10[1])aspect. (10[1])While protecting Parvati, Ganesha has his head cut off by, for 10 points, (0[1])what (10[1])Hindu destroyer god who makes up the Trimurti (10[1])with Vishnu and Brahma? (10[1])■END■

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