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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
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.