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Vol. II · Polytheism
Wakinyan
Lakota thunder beings
vast winged creatures wrapped in storm clouds, their beating wings cracking the sky open with lightning, seen only in sacred vision
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.
