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Visual depiction of Onatha

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Onatha

Iroquois corn spirit


a young woman spirit captured in the underworld until the sun draws her back to the surface each spring to live in the rustling green corn

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.