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Visual depiction of Kappa

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Kappa

Japanese river trickster


a green turtle-shelled creature with a water-filled dish on its head, offering a polite bow from the riverbank to unsuspecting travelers

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

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.