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Vol. II · Polytheism · death
Yama
Hindu god of death
riding his black buffalo with a noose to collect souls, his ledger-bearing assistant Chitragupta at his side
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.
