List of elephants in mythology and religion

The following elephants or elephant-like figures occur in mythology and religion.

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Deities with elephant heads

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Mythological elephants

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Other instances

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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.[1]

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