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Visual depiction of Sukunabikona

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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster

Sukunabikona

Japanese tiny healing god


a minute deity in a moth-wing cloak crossing the sea on a gourd, collaborating with Okuninushi to build the foundations of Japan

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

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.