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Visual depiction of Agwu Nsi

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Vol. II · Polytheism · wisdom

Agwu Nsi

Igbo deity of divination and sacred madness


a spirit who selects healers by afflicting them first, his initiates marked by creative disorder and insight

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

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.