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Visual depiction of Njoku Ji

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Vol. II · Polytheism · earth

Njoku Ji

Igbo yam deity


a god who presides over the sacred yam harvest, the yam as king of crops, his festivals marking the most important calendar event

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

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.