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Visual depiction of Sarutahiko

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Vol. II · Polytheism · war

Sarutahiko

Japanese threshold and guidance deity


a towering figure with a great red nose and divine strength, standing at the crossroads to guide the gods

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