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...

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,...

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

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...

Cults are social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals. Extreme devotion to a particular...

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 had performed under the name...

used, only for the hair. 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...

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...

A cult of personality is a system of worshipful behavior through uncritical flattery and praise directed at national leaders. Cults of personality use...

[citation needed] General terms associated with religious images include cult image, a term for images, especially in sculpture which are or have been claimed...

("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...

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...

all-knowing leader, with Stalin's name and image displayed all over the country. The building of the cult of personality around Stalin had to proceed...

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

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...

Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries (Greek: μυστήρια), were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation...

Palladium or Palladion (Greek Παλλάδιον (Palladion), Latin Palladium) was a cult image of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said...

menstruating women were not allowed to be near the cult images. The area where Isaf and Na'ila's images stood was considered out-of-bounds for menstruating...

deities.[ 17:81] Tribes, towns, clans, lineages and families had their own cults too. Christian Julien Robin suggests that this structure of the divine world...

Minoan Palaikastro, c. 1450 BC. It is likely the only enshrined Minoan cult image that has survived. It is, however, not clear whether the Greek chryselephantine...

golden calf (Hebrew: עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב, romanized: ʿēḡel hazzāhāḇ) was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai. In Hebrew, the...

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...

important part of the temple was the sanctuary, which typically contained a cult image of its god. The rooms outside the sanctuary grew larger and more elaborate...

false god is a derogatory term used in Abrahamic religions to indicate cult images or deities of non-Abrahamic Pagan religions, as well as other competing...

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...

Aphrodite. The statue became a tourist attraction in spite of being a cult image, and a patron of the Knidians. Nicomedes I of Bithynia offered to pay...

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...

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...