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The History of God
FIELD No. 70BD
Visual depiction of Raijin

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

Vol. II · Polytheism · sky

Raijin

Japanese god of thunder

beating his ring of drums in a dark storm sky, lightning and rain lashing the sea below, fearsome and exhilarated

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)
Archetype
sky

Source attribution

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

Cross-references — same archetype or region

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Agni

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

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Durga

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

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Huracan

Native American

 Visual depiction of Maui

Maui

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Persephone

Persephone

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Thunderbird

Thunderbird

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian