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Visual depiction of Okuninushi

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Okuninushi

Japanese nation-builder


a handsome deity who survived his brothers' murder attempts through clever magic, building the land of Izumo with divine trials behind him

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

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.