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Visual depiction of Palden Lhamo

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Vol. II · Polytheism · war

Palden Lhamo

Tibetan Buddhist wrathful protector


riding a mule over a sea of blood, her garments of flayed human skin, a skull cup and a club in her fearsome hands

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