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Visual depiction of Inari

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Inari

Japanese deity of rice and foxes


a bearded old man or a beautiful woman at a torii-lined mountain shrine, white fox messengers at their feet

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

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.