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Vol. II · Polytheism · primordial
Kurma
Hindu cosmic tortoise avatar of Vishnu
supporting the churning mountain Mandara on his vast shell as gods and demons churn the primordial ocean
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.
