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Vol. V · Deified Humans
Shaka Zulu
legendary Zulu king whose battlefield genius was seen as supernatural divine power
his assegai raised before a vast impi army as the living incarnation of ancestral strength
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.