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Visual depiction of Wiyot

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Wiyot

Yurok culture hero


the sacred being whose death at Coyote's hands necessitated the great World Renewal ceremony, his ghost honored in the dances at the river's mouth

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.