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Vol. II · Polytheism
Messou
Cree creator trickster
the great restorer who rebuilt the world after the flood by sending a muskrat to dive for earth, rebuilding all creation from a tiny clump of mud
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.