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Visual depiction of First Woman

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Vol. II · Polytheism

First Woman

Navajo primordial mother


the first female being emerging through the sacred reed alongside First Man, her bundle of plants the gift of all growing life

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

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.