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Visual depiction of Wamara

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Vol. II · Polytheism · war

Wamara

Nyoro royal ancestor spirit


last king of the Cwezi dynasty who vanished into Lake Wamala, his spirit invoked for protection and his sacred cattle rites still performed today

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

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 5) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.