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Visual depiction of Zhang Guolao

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Vol. II · Polytheism · wisdom

Zhang Guolao

Daoist eccentric immortal


riding his magical donkey backward while playing a bamboo drum, the donkey foldable as paper when not in use

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

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.