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Visual depiction of Cao Guojiu

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Cao Guojiu

Daoist immortal of courtly redemption


a dignified figure in court robes holding castanets, his noble birth surrendered for the path of immortal cultivation

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

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.