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Vol. II · Polytheism · wisdom
Itzamna
Maya creator deity
the great lizard lord of the heavens who invented writing and medicine, his ancient turtle body the foundation on which the world of the Maya rests
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.
