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Vol. II · Polytheism

Heyoka

Lakota sacred contrary spirit-clown

a backwards-walking figure in tattered regalia riding a horse in reverse, sacred lightning crackling playfully around him

Organization: Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period: ancient – present
Location: North & South America

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.