In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents...

former presence is made concrete in temples, shrines and churches, and cult images, including votive offerings at votive sites. Cicero defined religio as...

A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the result of an effort which is made to create an idealized and heroic image of a glorious leader,...

in some sense resided in the cult image in the cella or main room inside, normally facing the only door. The cult image normally took the form of a statue...

The Cult are an English rock band formed in Bradford in 1983. Before settling on their current name in January 1984, the band performed under the name...

used for the hair only. Chryselephantine sculptures, used for temple cult images and luxury works, used gold, most often in leaf form and ivory for all...

cult image. Thirty-six of these columns were, according to Pliny the Elder, decorated by carvings in relief. A new ebony or blackened grapewood cult statue...

deity's cult image and offered it food. In Roman times, temples to Isis in Egypt could be built either in Egyptian style, in which the cult image was in...

overthrow of a matrilineal cult. In his view Pygmalion, the consort of the goddess's priestess at Paphos, kept the cult image of Aphrodite as a means of...

Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were a deity. In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the Baháʼí...

An image is a visual representation. An image can be two-dimensional, such as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or three-dimensional, such as a carving...

annual Beautiful Festival of the Valley. The second chamber contained a cult image of Amun, and was flanked either side by a chapel. The north chapel was...

Cult is a lay term for a group perceived as requiring unwavering devotion to a set of beliefs and practices which are considered deviant outside the norms...

Look up graven image in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Graven image or graven images may refer to: Cult image, a human-made object that is venerated...

all-powerful, all-knowing leader, with Stalin's name and image appearing everywhere. The building of the cult of personality around Stalin had to proceed judiciously...

cult image of Archaic Greece. Classical Greeks associated such cult objects, whether aniconic or effigy, with the legendary Daedalus. Many such cult images...

The Roman imperial cult (Latin: cultus imperatorius) identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas)...

contained a statue [i.e. a cult image] of Yhwh”,: 4  which he specifically identifies as “two betyles (sacred stones), or two cult image statues symbolizing...

("place-lore") poem in the 12th century Book of Leinster, Crom Cruach's cult image, consisting of a gold figure surrounded by twelve stone figures, stood...

associated with free speech and the rights attached to coming of age. His cult and functions were increasingly associated with Romanised forms of the Greek...

the more popular were gradually able to afford a building to house a cult image, especially in cities. This process was certainly under way by the 9th century BC...

there stood a carved cult image. The temple was noted by Vitruvius as being archaic and "Etruscan" in its form. The cult image still stood as late as...

have contained up to 100 images of many gods and goddesses. Tribes, towns, clans, lineages and families had their own cults too. Christian Julien Robin...

"The Theology of Cult Statues in Ancient Egypt". In Dick, Michael B. (ed.). Born in Heaven, Made on Earth: The Making of the Cult Image in the Ancient Near...

communicants of the Eastern Christian Churches often have an icon corner. A cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity,...

world which have been described as having created a cult of personality by the media or academia. A cult of personality uses various techniques, including...

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated...

him, and that he intends to ultimately rule the cult and the world while remaking them in his image. During The Lamb's crusade against Shamura, Shamura...

veneration". The word "worship" (in a similar way to how the liturgical term "cult" is traditionally used) was not synonymous with adoration, but could be used...

successes. Victoria's coin images and cult images are probably based on an original cult image used in her temple. Her cult images show her in the attitude...