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Vol. II · Polytheism
Uktena
Cherokee horned serpent
a colossal serpent lurking in a remote mountain pass, its forehead bearing a blazing crystal that grants power and death to any who seek it
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.
