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Vol. II · Polytheism · trickster
Tanuki
Japanese shape-shifting trickster
a raccoon dog in a straw hat with an enormous belly drum, transforming into anything from a teapot to a wealthy merchant
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.
