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Vol. II · Polytheism
Nihansan Ahke
Arapaho Mother Earth
the great living ground depicted as a vast reclining woman whose body is the prairie, her breath the wind across the tallgrass
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.