Look I toasted this piece of bread and there's a big blotch, it looks like Virgin Mary.
You've seen these stories before, yup? Well, for once it isn't a Catholic sighting but a Hindu sighting of the divine within every day objects.
This charming man sees the elephant-headed god Ganesh in one of his bedding plants:
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The Jamaica man is convinced the mysterious blossom is an incarnation of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh - and neighbors and friends are flocking to see it.
The nearly 4-foot-tall flower grew in June and began to resemble an elephant's head and trunk in August. Lal said that the ailments that had plagued him for months disappeared.
"They say God comes in many forms. I figure this has taken the form of a plant to come into my yard to bless me," said Lal, who immigrated from Guyana three decades ago.
Experts at the Queens Botanical Garden identified the plant as a member of the amaranth family, which is native to Africa, India and southern Central America but not the U.S. Horticulturalists at the garden have never seen an amaranth take an elephant-like shape, garden spokesman Tim Heimerle said.
"For it to have that long trunk like this is not a natural thing," he said.
Horticultural expert, eh?
Because Mimi did some delving and found this:
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Elephant Head AmaranthQuote:
Amaranthus gangeticus
(Heirloom) The reason it's called Elephant Head is that the deep-red bloom grows quite large (36-40") with a long (18-24") protuberance that looks like an elephant's trunk. Annual. (65-80 days) Approx. 150 seeds.
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