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Shiva and his family
Shiva and his family at the burning ground. Parvati, Shiva's wife, holds Skanda while...
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photograph A.C. Cooper
Confucius
Confucius, illustration in E.T.C. Werner's Myths and Legends of China, 1922.
© Historica Graphica Collection—Heritage Images/Getty Images
Jesus
Jesus enthroned as Lord of All (Pantocrator), with the explaining letters IC XC,...
Farrell Grehan/Photo Researchers
Qurʾān
Qurʾān with illuminated manuscript pages featuring ink, gold, and lapis, late 18th–early...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 2009 (accession no. 2009.294); www.metmuseum.org
Joseph Smith and Moroni
Moroni delivering the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith, lithograph, 1886.
Everett Collection Historical/Alamy