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Visual depiction of Narasimha

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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

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

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.