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Vol. II · Polytheism
Selu
Cherokee corn mother
the sacred corn woman whose body produced corn and beans for the people, sacrificing herself so her blood would grow the first crop from the earth
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.
