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The History of God
FIELD No. 7D9A
Visual depiction of Vajrapani

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Vol. II · Polytheism · war

Vajrapani

Buddhist guardian of the Buddha

fierce with lightning bolt vajra raised, blue-skinned and armored, trampling demons underfoot

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)
Archetype
war

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

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Yemoja

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