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  • Egyptian deities; Harpocrates, Mmen Re, Imhotep
  • Egyptian deities; Ptah, Isis nursing Horus, Imnhotep
  • Egyptian deities; Amen Re of bronze, Isis of wood
  • The deities of medicine. Watercolour by a Chinese painter.
  • Chinese deities (?). Gouache painting by a Chinese painter.
  • The Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara surrounded by other Buddhist deities. Distemper painting.
  • The Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara surrounded by other Buddhist deities. Distemper painting.
  • Hindu deities: Shiva, Chhinnamasta, Kamadeva and Rati. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The three Buddhist deities Vajrapāṇi, Mañjuśrī and Avalokiteśvara. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo Demon with other deities, set in a torana. Coloured lithograph.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo Demon on a stand within a torana surrounded by deities. Chromolithograph.
  • Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian deities advertising Henry S. Wellcome's Historical Medical Museum. Lithograph, 1913.
  • Two Indian deities with many headed snakes. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1750(?).
  • A battle between animals, divs and Hindu deities. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1600.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo demon surrounded by deities on a stand within a torana. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Shiva carries Parvati on his back, flanked two other deities. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, 18--.
  • The cow as mother of the world: with pictures of Hindu deities all over its body. Coloured lithograph.
  • Two Indian deities in the form of archers, one riding a lion. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1650(?).
  • Statuary of Egyptian deities in the temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
  • Shiva dances for Parvati, other deities and a group of people in the mountain. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Saxon deities after which days of the week were named: Sun, Moon, Tuisco, Woden, Thor, Friga and Saeter (Seater). Etching after R. Verstegan, 17--.
  • Krishna slaying a demon with the aid of a cow, is watched by several cowherds with Indian deities in the distance. Gouache painting, ca. 1800.
  • A wicker man inside which people are sacrificed, surrounded by the principal deities of the Saxons. Etching by Smith after R. Verstegen and A. Sammes.
  • A Christian man is tortured because he refuses to eat meat or drink wine that have been dedicated in a sacrifice to pagan deities. Woodcut.
  • The discovery of herbal medicines, their transport by ship from the East Indies and their presentation to the pagan deities. Engraving after Adolf van der Laan, 1741.
  • The discovery of herbal medicines, their transport by ship from the East Indies and their presentation to the pagan deities. Engraving after Adolf van der Laan, 1741.
  • An eight-petalled lotus with Vishnu in the center, and eight other deities in each petal representing the eight cardinal directions (?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Narasimha, the lion-headed avatar of Vishnu, emerges from a stone pillar to destroy the demon Hiranyakashipu watched by other Hindu deities. Painting by an Indian artist, 1800s.
  • Nine female deities (?) performing a yagna, a fire sacrifice, an old vedic ritual where offerings are made to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Masque in honour of King Charles III of Spain: three chariots carrying pagan deities of the moon, the earth and fire. Etching by A.J. Defehrt after F. Tramullas, 1764.