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Visual depiction of Sasabonsam

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Vol. II · Polytheism · wisdom

Sasabonsam

Akan forest monster and source of occult power


a vast iron-toothed creature sitting in the treetops catching unwary travelers, his association with dark forest knowledge

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
wisdom

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.