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Visual depiction of Jizo as child protector

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Vol. II · Polytheism · earth

Jizo as child protector

Japanese Buddhist monk-deity


a gentle stone figure in a red bib stacking stones for children who died young, watching over the small souls

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

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.