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Visual depiction of Cangjie

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Vol. II · Polytheism · wisdom

Cangjie

Chinese inventor of writing


studying the tracks of birds and stars to invent the first Chinese characters, the heavens raining millet in celebration of his discovery

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
wisdom

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.