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Visual depiction of Marzanna

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Marzanna

Slavic goddess of winter and death


a straw effigy that burns and drowns at spring's coming, her cold gaze watching as the seasons turn

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.