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Visual depiction of Khonvoum

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Vol. II · Polytheism · sky

Khonvoum

Bambuti Pygmy sky and hunting god


a deity who recreates the sun each morning from crushed stars, his bow the rainbow spanning the Congo forest sky

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

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.