Bow to the Elephants .. (subliminal message)
"Bow Your Head" "Show them respect. The elephants created this jungle. Where they made furrows with their tusks the rivers ran. Where they blew with their trunks the leaves fell. They made all that belongs, the mountains, the trees, the birds in the tree."
The superlative deference to a ruling class (bordering on divine right) urged by Mowgli's father figure smacks of veiled subtext. Objections of 'reading into it' may be raised, however it's exactly these types of episodes between the lines that indoctrinate children to conform to authority.