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Visual depiction of Nyami Nyami

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Vol. II · Polytheism · earth

Nyami Nyami

Tonga river serpent of the Zambezi


a vast serpentine deity separated from his wife when Kariba Dam was built, his anger causing floods and tremors

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.