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Vol. II · Polytheism · wisdom
Benzaiten
Japanese goddess of everything flowing
playing the biwa lute on a sea dragon, music visible as waves in the air around her island shrine
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.
