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The History of God
FIELD No. 4553
Visual depiction of A great white shark breaching for a seal off South Africa

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Vol. I · Animism

A great white shark breaching for a seal off South Africa

massive body mid-air

spray frozen in time, grey ocean, stark silver and white 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.

Cross-references — same archetype or region

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 Visual depiction of A giant ground sloth rearing up at a human hunting party in a Pleistocene North American forest

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 Visual depiction of A horseshoe crab crawling up a moonlit beach to spawn

A horseshoe crab crawling up a moonlit beach to spawn

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 Visual depiction of A monarch butterfly resting on an autumn milkweed flower in a meadow

A monarch butterfly resting on an autumn milkweed flower in a meadow

natural-animal

 Visual depiction of A red-eyed tree frog clinging to a wet bromeliad leaf in tropical downpour

A red-eyed tree frog clinging to a wet bromeliad leaf in tropical downpour

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