"The fish-headed figures on Benin plaques are not mere decorative elements but profound cosmological statements. These hybrid beings represent the Oba's dual sovereignty—his human authority over land and his divine kinship with Olokun, god of the waters, through the aquatic symbolism."

— Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch, The Benin Plaques: A 16th Century Imperial Monument (2018), p. 132.

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