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Visual depiction of Melinoe

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Vol. II · Polytheism · death

Melinoe

Orphic Greek goddess of ghosts


half her body white and half black, leading night terrors and shades through the sleeping world at the dark of the moon

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

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.