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The History of God
FIELD No. 3042
Visual depiction of Early humans making red ochre body paint

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Vol. I · Animism

Early humans making red ochre body paint

grinding the stone

mixing with animal fat, firelight, first cosmetics and symbolic thought, warm red-ochre palette, loose brushwork, sharp focus, 4K detail

Organization
Animistic Spirit 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-natural-other has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

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 Visual depiction of A colony of diatoms in various geometric forms drifting in a water drop

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A pistol shrimp in its burrow shared with a goby

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