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Vol. V · Deified Humans
Laozi
ancient Chinese sage deified as Taishang Laojun the Supreme Old Lord
a white-bearded immortal riding his water buffalo westward into the sacred mists at history's edge
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.