Skip to content
The History of God
FIELD No. BD81
Visual depiction of Tangaroa

Hover to play loop & narration. Visual depiction; cultural attribution in the metadata below.

Vol. II · Polytheism

Tangaroa

Polynesian god of the sea

rising from ocean depths carved with all the fish and sea creatures that live within him, vast and ancient

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

Cross-references — same archetype or region

Visual depiction of Apollo

Apollo

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Hades

Hades

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Ma'at

Ma'at

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Pluto

Pluto

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Viracocha

Viracocha

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian

 Visual depiction of Coyote

Coyote

Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian