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Visual depiction of Benten as love patroness

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Vol. II · Polytheism · love

Benten as love patroness

Japanese goddess of arts and charm


playing the biwa on a sea dragon's back, her beauty inspiring poetry, music, and devotion

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 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.