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Visual depiction of Nihansan Ahke

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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

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

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.