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Braided River

A Renaissance fresco: a green-robed figure leans over a large translucent celestial globe spangled with stars and constellations

The Most Moved Mover (The Braided River, Part 9)

Byzantine icon of Christ Pantocrator,

The God of the Philosophers, or Our Father, Who Art in Heaven (The Braided River, Part 8)

Weathered marble statue of a bearded Zeus seated on a throne

Sky Fathers and Bright Ones, or the gods that came with the horses (The Braided River, Part 7)

Line drawing of the painted scene on Pithos A from Kuntillet ʿAjrud.

God in the Distance (The Braided River, Part 6)

Carved stone relief at Persepolis showing the Faravahar: a robed figure rising from a winged disc, hand raised, above a band of rosettes, with worn cuneiform beneath.

The Persian Encounter, or: the Indo-Iranian Substrate Present in Semitic Mythemes (The Braided River, Part 4)

Vast oil painting of an apocalyptic landscape, with shattered cliffs collapsing inward.

A Lake of Fire: On Divine Punishment and the Hereafter (The Braided River, Part 3)