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The History of God
FIELD No. 18BC
Visual depiction of Heracles

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Heracles

Greek hero deified

completing the twelfth labor strangling the Nemean lion, twelve labors arrayed in panels around him, ascending to Olympus

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)

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.

Cross-references — same archetype or region

Visual depiction of Set

Set

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Yarilo

Yarilo

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Enki

Enki

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Kali

Kali

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Ogun

Ogun

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Thoth

Thoth

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian