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Visual depiction of Matsya

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Vol. II · Polytheism · primordial

Matsya

Hindu fish avatar of Vishnu


a great golden fish pulling the boat of Manu through the primordial flood, the Vedas tied to the mast as the world is saved

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
primordial

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.