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Visual depiction of Izanami's Yomotsu-shikome

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Vol. II · Polytheism · death

Izanami's Yomotsu-shikome

Japanese underworld hags


hideous women sent by Izanami to pursue Izanagi as he flees from Yomi, terror and rot in their skeletal wake

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

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.