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Visual depiction of Benzaiten as fortune goddess

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Vol. II · Polytheism · earth

Benzaiten as fortune goddess

the Japanese patroness of arts and wealth


playing her biwa surrounded by white snakes, her island shrine at Enoshima blessed by the sea

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.