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Xoanon

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A named early wooden cult-image of Greek rite, often aniconic or barely carved. Not an ushabti, not a moai, not the Palladion, and not a being.

Hellenic religion

  • Xoanon appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias describes early wooden cult-images, xoana, at Greek shrines. A named image-form in that travel-book, not the Palladion, not an ushabti, and not a moai.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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