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Visual depiction of Hakan

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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

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.