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

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Vol. I · Animism

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

skull pattern on thorax

bold nocturnal atmosphere, dark amber and umber palette, loose brushwork, 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.