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Vol. II · Polytheism
Great Buzzard
Cherokee earth shaper
the great primordial vulture whose tired wings struck the soft earth again and again, creating the mountains and valleys of the Cherokee homeland
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.
