GIP!
This is Ganesh, the Remover of Obstacles, the Elephant-Headed God, the Hindu god of success. He rides a rat who told him how to beat his brother, the fastest god of the pantheon, at a race around the Universe ("Run around your mother, Parvati," said the rat, "who is, after all, the Universe."). He agreed to transcribe the Mahabarata (I think
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