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The History of God
FIELD No. 643A
Visual depiction of A short-faced bear standing at full height

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Vol. I · Animism

A short-faced bear standing at full height

towering over a Pleistocene landscape

the largest bear that ever lived, warm gold and shadow 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

Visual depiction of A brown bear mother with two cubs at a berry patch on a hillside in late summer

A brown bear mother with two cubs at a berry patch on a hillside in late summer

natural-animal

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A Eurasian brown bear fishing in a cold Siberian river

natural-animal

 Visual depiction of A great white shark breaching for a seal off South Africa

A great white shark breaching for a seal off South Africa

natural-animal

 Visual depiction of A lionfish hovering above a reef

A lionfish hovering above a reef

natural-animal

 Visual depiction of A Permian landscape before the great extinction

A Permian landscape before the great extinction

natural-animal

 Visual depiction of A serval making a spectacular vertical leap to catch a bird in tall savanna grass

A serval making a spectacular vertical leap to catch a bird in tall savanna grass

natural-animal