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Visual depiction of Citipati

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Vol. II · Polytheism · death

Citipati

Tibetan Buddhist skeletal lords of the charnel ground


two skeleton figures in an eternal dance at the graveyard, their story of murdered monks warning of inattention

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

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.