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The History of God
FIELD No. 586B
Visual depiction of A Gigantopithecus — the largest ape ever — moving through a Chinese Pleistocene bamboo forest

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Vol. I · Animism

A Gigantopithecus — the largest ape ever — moving through a Chinese Pleistocene bamboo forest

enormous and elusive

deep green and shadow palette, loose brushwork, sharp focus, 4K detail

Organization
Sacred Landscape Traditions
Time period
Pre-history – present
Location
Worldwide

Source attribution

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

Cross-references — same archetype or region

Visual depiction of A pair of scarlet macaws roosting together in the jungle canopy at sunset

A pair of scarlet macaws roosting together in the jungle canopy at sunset

natural-landscape

 Visual depiction of The first anatomically modern humans migrating along the East African coastline

The first anatomically modern humans migrating along the East African coastline

natural-landscape

 Visual depiction of A Ceratosaurus beside a Jurassic river at sunset

A Ceratosaurus beside a Jurassic river at sunset

natural-landscape

 Visual depiction of A siphonophore colony trailing through open ocean

A siphonophore colony trailing through open ocean

natural-landscape

 Visual depiction of A Liopleurodon pursuing prey through a dark Jurassic ocean

A Liopleurodon pursuing prey through a dark Jurassic ocean

natural-landscape

 Visual depiction of Ardipithecus in an Ethiopian forest four million years ago

Ardipithecus in an Ethiopian forest four million years ago

natural-landscape