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The History of God
FIELD No. D8B6
Visual depiction of A Komodo dragon walking slowly through dry island scrub

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Vol. I · Animism

A Komodo dragon walking slowly through dry island scrub

forked tongue flicking

heavy dewlap, volcanic landscape beyond, arid ochre and grey 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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