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Visual depiction of Anguta

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Anguta

Inuit father of Sedna


the grim father who cast his daughter into the freezing sea, now dwelling in the underworld carrying the souls of the dead in his great arms

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.