Cocijo

Illustration

by Sean Pathasema/Birmingham Museum of Art
published on 28 October 2013

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An urn representing the Zapotec deity Cocijo who had a human body with jaguar and serpent features with a forked tongue and was considered the god of rain and lightning. (200 BCE - 700 CE, Stanford Cantor Museum)

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Original image by Sean Pathasema/Birmingham Museum of Art. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 28 October 2013 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution. This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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Art, S. P. M. o. (2013, October 28). Cocijo. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/2129/cocijo/

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Art, Sean Pathasema/Birmingham Museum of. "Cocijo." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified October 28, 2013. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/2129/cocijo/.

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Art, Sean Pathasema/Birmingham Museum of. "Cocijo." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 28 Oct 2013. Web. 13 Apr 2021.

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