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Visual depiction of Nyabingi

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Vol. II · Polytheism · war

Nyabingi

Great Lakes resistance spirit


a powerful possession cult deity whose medium inspired the Kiga people's resistance to colonial rule, her spirit moving through women healers and fighters

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 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.