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Visual depiction of Adonis

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Vol. II · Polytheism · love

Adonis

Greek-Near Eastern god of beauty


reclining in a garden of flowers as Aphrodite mourns beside him, the anemone blooming from his blood on the ground

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
love

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.