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COLLECTION No. 1947

An archival project · in progress

Field notes on the divine.

An archival catalog of 1,947 visual depictions of how humans, across cultures and centuries, have expressed the idea of god.

1,947 specimens 5 volumes 42 cultures 10 archetypes

For most of our species' time on this planet, every river had a voice and every storm a temper. The history of belief is the slow, restless story of how humans have organized that voice — into totem, into pantheon, into a single name unspoken.

Every age remakes the divine in its own image.

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  1. VOL. I Animism Pre-history – present 549 specimens
  2. VOL. II Polytheism c. 3000 BCE – 600 CE 962 specimens
  3. VOL. III Henotheism & theophany c. 1200 BCE – 100 CE 182 specimens
  4. VOL. IV Monotheism c. 200 BCE – present 388 specimens
  5. VOL. V Deified humans c. 2500 BCE – present 48 specimens