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Vol. II · Polytheism
Unhcegila
Lakota horned water serpent
a massive scaled creature with crystalline horns rising from a river, her jeweled forehead blazing with deadly light
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.