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Vol. II · Polytheism · earth
Ayyappan
Hindu forest deity
a celibate ascetic god enthroned on a tiger in the Kerala forest, pilgrims climbing the mountain to Sabarimala in his honor
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.