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Visual depiction of Ogun

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Vol. II · Polytheism · war

Ogun

Yoruba god of iron and creation


emerging from the sacred forest with machete and chains, fire at his feet, palm wine poured at his iron altar

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