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Visual depiction of Toyotama-hime

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Vol. II · Polytheism · love

Toyotama-hime

Japanese sea princess


emerging from the ocean in her true dragon form to give birth to the ancestor of Japan's imperial line, waves crashing around her

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

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.