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Vol. II · Polytheism · death
Ox-Head
Chinese hell guardian
a terrifying ox-headed demon guarding the first gate of the underworld, his iron fork raised to herd incoming souls to judgment
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.