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Vol. II · Polytheism
Itzpapalotl
Aztec obsidian butterfly goddess
the clawed obsidian butterfly spirit of the paradise of the dead, her skeletal wings edged with flint knives gleaming in the dark
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.
