11-26-2017, 12:01 AM
I don't think she was a virgin in the story... they were married. Maybe they explain the lack of a child with how Shiva was too busy out meditating in the wilderness going into ecstatic altered states of consciousness to pay attention to his wife. Anyway... Parvati was home alone, and she was going to take a bath. So she took the oil and dirt from her skin and fashioned a son for herself, and breathed life into him, and instructed him to guard the door while she bathed. Those were the instructions. So by coincidence Shiva comes home, and Ganesha doesn't recognize him, and Shiva is like "WTF are you doing? Who even are you? I LIVE HERE." So of course they fight about it.