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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
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.