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Vol. V · Deified Humans
Cao Cao
Three Kingdoms warlord and poet who was later deified in folk religion as a trickster war god
his scheming strategist's face transformed into a sacred temple mask
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.