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Visual depiction of Maui

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Maui

Polynesian demigod


using his enchanted fishhook to haul the islands of New Zealand up from the ocean floor, sky brightening with his effort

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

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.