Staff God

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The Staff God is a principal Andean deity, often depicted front-facing and holding vertical staffs, associated with creation, fertility, and cosmic order in ancient pre-Columbian religions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Staff God canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Andean deity
mythological figure
appearsIn Andean ceramics
Andean stone carvings
Andean textiles
Chavín de Huántar iconography
Andean mythology
surface form: Inca iconography

Tiwanaku iconography
Wari iconography
associatedWith cosmic order
creation
fertility
category Andean mythology
creator gods
fertility gods
pre-Columbian deities
culture Andean civilizations
Chavín culture
Inca Empire
surface form: Inca culture

Tiwanaku culture
Wari Empire
surface form: Wari culture
depiction figure holding vertical staffs
front-facing figure
function mediator between realms
unifier of sky and earth
geographicRegion Bolivia
Andes
surface form: Central Andes

Peru
iconographicFeature elaborate headdress
fanged mouth
radiating head
symmetrical composition
influenceOn later Andean religious iconography
religion ancient Andean religion
pre-Columbian Andean religion
role cosmic organizer
creator deity
fertility deity
protector of cosmic order
symbol scepter-like object
staff
timePeriod Early Horizon Andes
Formative Period Andes
Middle Horizon Andes
worshipContext ceremonial architecture
ritual art
worshipedBy ancient Andean peoples

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chavín culture majorDeity Staff God
Nazca culture mainDeity Staff God
Gateway of the Sun depicts Staff God