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XOANON - A xoanon ( ( listen), Greek: ; plural: xoana, from the verb , xeein, to carve or scrape [wood]) was an Archaic wooden cult image of Ancient Greece. ...
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| Nothing on cross? Soon supplying wooden carving of deity |
| Kiss soon embodies love for divine statue |
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| Nov 3 2006 The Times - Cryptic |
| Apr 15 2005 The Times - Cryptic |
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| A xoanon ( ( listen), Greek: ; plural: xoana, from the verb , xeein, to carve or scrape [wood]) was an Archaic wooden cult image of Ancient Greece. Classical Greeks associated such cult objects, whether aniconic or effigy, with the legendary Daedalus. Many such cult images were preserved into historical times, though none are known to have survived to the modern day, except where their image was copied in stone or marble. In the 2nd century CE, Pausanias described numerous xoana in his Description of Greece, notably the image of Hera in her temple at Samos. "The statue of Samian Hera, as Aethilos [sic!] says, was a wooden beam at first, but afterwards, when Prokles was ruler, it was humanized in form". In Pausanias' travels he never mentions seeing a xoanon of a mortal man. |