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Vol. II · Polytheism
Earthmaker
Mandan creator deity
the sacred grandfather shaping the first human beings from river clay while the waters of the flood still recede around him
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.
