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Visual depiction of Ayyappan

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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

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

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.