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Visual depiction of Kojin

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Vol. II · Polytheism · earth

Kojin

Japanese hearth and kitchen god


a triple-faced fierce deity presiding over the fire and the cooking stone, protecting the household from harm in the sacred center

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.