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Vol. II · Polytheism · death
Mahakala as Time-Death
Buddhist-Hindu devourer
his vast form consuming the three worlds as time itself, skulls and flames marking the end of every cycle
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.