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The History of God
FIELD No. 9E57
Visual depiction of White Shell Woman

Hover to play loop & narration. Visual depiction; cultural attribution in the metadata below.

Vol. II · Polytheism

White Shell Woman

Navajo sacred feminine

a luminous woman emerging from white shell and sea foam, her presence bringing healing and the cycles of the moon

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

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.

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