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Vol. II · Polytheism
Guanyin
Chinese bodhisattva of compassion
standing on a lotus above the sea, pouring mercy from a willow-sprig vase, a thousand arms extending to help all beings
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.