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Visual depiction of Heitsi-eibib

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Vol. II · Polytheism · sky

Heitsi-eibib

Khoikhoi culture hero


a trickster who dies and resurrects many times, his cairns marking the landscape of Namibia where travelers add stones

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
sky

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.