Religion:Diipetes

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Diipetes are objects, likely meteorite fragments, with coincidental human and animal forms, venerated in Ancient Greece as "thrown by the gods".[1] See also Acheiropoetos (literally ‘not-made-by-hand’), an early Judeo-Christian tradition, and icon.[2]

Examples

  • Diipetes Xoano of Athena

Other uses

The Diipetes Journal is a quarterly journal in Greek published in Greece covering classical paganism and Hellenic polytheism since 1991.

References

  1. Gogola, Matej (2018-12-30). "Prolegomena to the Christian Images Not Made by Human Hands" (in en). Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe 8: 121–137. doi:10.18778/2084-140X.08.07. ISSN 2449-8378. https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/sceranea/article/view/4252. 
  2. Zchomelidse, Nino (2010). "THE AURA OF THE NUMINOUS AND ITS REPRODUCTION: MEDIEVAL PAINTINGS OF THE SAVIOR IN ROME AND LATIUM". Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 55: 221–263. ISSN 0065-6801. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41419694.