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The History of God
FIELD No. D9A9
Visual depiction of A kakapo at night in New Zealand forest undergrowth

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

Vol. I · Animism

A kakapo at night in New Zealand forest undergrowth

mossy green plumage

owl-like face, soft moonlight, deep forest green and silver 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.

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