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Keegan Porter
"As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion."

Atheist/Agnostic/Secular history

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The West African griot is a troubadour, the counterpart of the medieval European minstrel... The griot knows everything that is going on... He is a living archive of the people's traditions... The virtuoso talents of the griots command universal admiration.
The West African griot is a troubadour, the counterpart of the medieval European minstrel... The griot knows everything that is going on... He is a living archive of the people's traditions... The virtuoso talents of the griots command universal admiration.
Opele: A chain used in the process of divination. The priest throws it on the ground to determine what poem to read. (Read more under Process)

Africa

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Persian sphinx from Halicarnassus, 355 BC.
Rock-born Mithras and Mithraic artifacts (Baths of Diocletian, Rome)

Persia / Zoroastrian

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Vodou

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Koshchey the Deathless by Ivan Bilibin, 1901
Koschey revived by Ivan with water, from Marya Morevna (The Red Fairy Book, 1890)
Slavic creation myth - Wikipedia

Slavic

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Pontius Pilate - Wikipedia
Coat of arms of Moscow - Wikipedia
pre-Lenten celebrations. As part of the festivities, two carts filled with pigs were hauled to the top of the hill, then released to run back down and smash in pieces at the bottom of the hill, where the watching revellers then dismembered the pigs on the spot for roasting.

Abrahamic (New Testament / Christianity)

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Egypt

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Entrance door to the Yeshivat haMekubalim, depicting all 7 gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls

Abrahamic (Judaism & Old Testament)

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Throne Verse - Wikipedia
Geomantic instrument, Egypt or Syria, 1241–42 CE, by Muhammad ibn Khutlukh al Mawsuli. When the dials were turned, random designs of dots would appear, which were then interpreted. British Museum.

Arabian (Pre- and Post- Islam)

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Mephistopheles and Margaretta is a 19th-century wooden double sculpture featuring two images carved on opposite sides; it portrays two characters from German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1808 play Faust. The obverse depicts the demon Mephistopheles, and the reverse depicts a woman, Margaretta (Margaret, or Gretchen). A mirror placed behind the sculpture allows both sides to be seen simultaneously.
Puck (1930-1932, replica 2002), Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

Folk, European & Misc

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"besiege Wei, save Zhao" meaning to attack a vulnerable spot to relieve pressure at another point.
Tudigong (土地公 "Lord of the Soil and the Ground") or Tudishen (土地神 "God of the Soil and the Ground"), also known simply as Tudi (土地 "Soil-Ground") is a tutelary deity of a locality and the human communities who inhabit it in Chinese folk religion and Taoism.
Tudigong (土地公 "Lord of the Soil and the Ground") or Tudishen (土地神 "God of the Soil and the Ground"), also known simply as Tudi (土地 "Soil-Ground") is a tutelary deity of a locality and the human communities who inhabit it in Chinese folk religion and Taoism.

Chinese

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Plate 1. Frontispiece, copy E (Yale Center for British Art).

Esoteric, New Age, Composite

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Page 9 of the Dresden Codex (from the 1880 Förstermann edition)
Dignity statue with star quilt, a rainbow in the sky above

Indigenous America (Native)

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the national personification of the French Republic since the French Revolution, as a personification of liberty, equality, fraternity and reason, as well as a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty.
horseman with a spear in his hand slaying a basilisk and is identified with Saint George and the Dragon

Politico & Civic

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Scorpion man - Wikipedia

Mesopotamia & Proto-Semitic

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Ouroboros - Wikipedia
Norse mythology - Wikipedia
The Kvinneby amulet invokes Thor to protect its wearer with his hammer.

Norse & Celtic

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Kamakura shogunate - Wikipedia

Japan

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Freer Gallery of Art - Wikipedia
Gomedh and Ambika at Maharaja Chhatrasal Museum, 11th century
Painting of Āṭavaka, a yaksha who challenged the Buddha

Hindu & Buddhist

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Semele - Wikipedia
The Education of Achilles, by Eugène Delacroix, pastel on paper, c. 1862 (Getty Center, Los Angeles)

Greek & Roman

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The Birth and the First Seven Steps of the Buddha, gray schist relief, Gandhara, 2nd or 3rd century CE; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Maitreya Bodhisattva Maitreya, schist from Gandhara, Pakistan, Kushan dynasty, 2nd–4th century CE; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Buddhism

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Liber Divinorum Operum, or the Universal Man of St. Hildegard of Bingen, 1185 (13th-century copy)
Magnum Chaos, wood-inlay by Giovan Francesco Capoferri at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, based on a design by Lorenzo Lotto.

C. Philosophy & Comparative Mythology

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Semele - Wikipedia
Semele - Wikipedia
Semele - Wikipedia
a large metal door on the side of a building with menorah candles in it
Jesus Portrait
When One Door Closes
Gorgeous Doors
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Old Doors
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Entrance door to the Yeshivat haMekubalim, depicting all 7 gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls
a statue of a man and woman standing next to each other
19th Century Sculpture
Goethe's Faust
French Statue
The Master And Margarita
French Sculptor
History Of India
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European Art
Mephistopheles and Margaretta - Wikipedia
Mephistopheles and Margaretta is a 19th-century wooden double sculpture featuring two images carved on opposite sides; it portrays two characters from German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1808 play Faust. The obverse depicts the demon Mephistopheles, and the reverse depicts a woman, Margaretta (Margaret, or Gretchen). A mirror placed behind the sculpture allows both sides to be seen simultaneously.
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Pontius Pilate - Wikipedia
Pontius Pilate - Wikipedia
a painting of a man riding on the back of a horse with an arrow in his hand
Romanticism Artists
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Getty Museum
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A Horse
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Achilles - Wikipedia
The Education of Achilles, by Eugène Delacroix, pastel on paper, c. 1862 (Getty Center, Los Angeles)
a statue of a woman wearing a blue dress
French Symbols
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the national personification of the French Republic since the French Revolution, as a personification of liberty, equality, fraternity and reason, as well as a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty.
a painting of a man riding on the back of a blue horse with gold trimmings
Persian Miniature
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Indian Painting
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Throne Verse - Wikipedia
Throne Verse - Wikipedia
the painting depicts an old man handing something to a young child, who is sitting on a rock
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Freer Gallery of Art - Wikipedia Chola Dynasty, Ancient Origins, Antique Coins, Mother Goddess, Rishikesh, Bhagavad Gita, Old Coins, Bronze Statue, Hindu Art
Chola Dynasty
Ancient Origins
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Hindu Art
Freer Gallery of Art - Wikipedia
Freer Gallery of Art - Wikipedia
an old book with writing on it and some designs in the middle, including a snake
Celtic Christianity
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Book Of Kells
Irish Art
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Ouroboros - Wikipedia
Ouroboros - Wikipedia
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an intricately carved sculpture with figures on it
Ancient Indian History
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Gomedh and Ambika at Maharaja Chhatrasal Museum, 11th century
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Yaksha - Wikipedia
Painting of Āṭavaka, a yaksha who challenged the Buddha
a drawing of an angel holding a snake on top of it's back with the word
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horseman with a spear in his hand slaying a basilisk and is identified with Saint George and the Dragon
a knight riding on the back of a white horse
File:Coat of arms of Moscow.svg - Wikipedia
Coat of arms of Moscow - Wikipedia