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Vol. II · Polytheism
Tohil
K'iche' Maya fire deity
the fire god who demanded blood sacrifice in exchange for the gift of fire, his obsidian body the lightning strike that first ignited the sacred flame
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.
