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The History of God
FIELD No. 347B
Visual depiction of Old Woman Who Never Dies

Hover to play loop & narration. Visual depiction; cultural attribution in the metadata below.

Vol. II · Polytheism

Old Woman Who Never Dies

Pawnee fertility grandmother

an ancient woman presiding over the return of all living things, ducks and geese circling her lodge in the spring thaw

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

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Tate

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Ehecatl

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