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Visual depiction of Sun Chief

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Sun Chief

Plateau tribes solar deity


the great solar power presiding over the lives of the river plateau peoples, his journey across the sky tracking the turning of the seasonal round

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

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.