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Vol. II · Polytheism · war
Narasimha
Hindu lion-man avatar
bursting through a golden pillar with the demon Hiranyakashipu across his thighs, claws and divine fury splitting the evil king apart
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.