List of elephants in mythology and religion

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

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.