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Vol. II · Polytheism
Camazotz
Maya bat god
the death bat of Xibalba decapitating the maize hero in the house of bats, his vast leather wings spread in the darkness of the underworld cave
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.
