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Vol. II · Polytheism
Hakan
Yokuts eagle spirit
the great eagle whose death in the creation story required the first mourning ceremony, his feathers scattered to become all the lesser birds of the valley
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.