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Vol. II · Polytheism · death
Hel
Norse ruler of the dead
half her body living flesh and half a corpse, presiding over Niflheim's frozen hall, the dead kneeling before her
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.