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Visual depiction of Unkulunkulu

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Vol. II · Polytheism · primordial

Unkulunkulu

Zulu ancestral creator


the first human emerging from a bed of reeds, shaping all people and animals from his divine breath on the earth

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

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.