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Visual depiction of Sogbo

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Vol. II · Polytheism · sky

Sogbo

Fon thunder god


a fierce wielder of lightning in the Dahomean pantheon, his axe splitting the sky as he enforces divine justice from his celestial throne

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

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.