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Vol. II · Polytheism
Khenipsit
Salish giant serpent
an enormous horned serpent dwelling in the depths of a mountain lake, its passage raising waves that capsize canoes and swallow the unwary
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.