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Vol. II · Polytheism
Inyan
Lakota primordial rock creator
an ancient stone spirit bleeding his own blood to form the waters of the world, veins of power crackling through living stone
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.