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The History of God
FIELD No. B927
Visual depiction of A Baird's tapir bathing in a jungle stream at dusk

Hover to play loop & narration. Visual depiction; cultural attribution in the metadata below.

Vol. I · Animism

A Baird's tapir bathing in a jungle stream at dusk

water rippling around its bulk

orange-gold last light, muted earthy palette, fine line work, sharp focus, 4K detail

Organization
Animistic Animal Spirits
Time period
Pre-history – present (animism is continuous)
Location
Worldwide

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how natural-animal has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

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A death's-head hawkmoth perched on a beehive entrance

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