At Mecca the Goddess was Shaybah or Sheba, the Old Woman, worshipped as a black aniconic stone like the Godess of the Scythian Amazons. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Additionally, monotheism was held to entail certain consequences, including universalism, anti-superstition and magic, ethical, aniconic. From Wordnik.com. [Early Jewish Monotheisms] Reference
Is the Sodom story, even, a necessary step in constructing an aniconic, ascetic, abstracted concept of the divine needed to get from an animistic understanding of nature to a mechanistic -- i.e. scientific -- understanding?. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Justice And Mercy] Reference
The obelisk at Abusir was the aniconic representative of the sun-god Re, or rather, the support of the pyramidal apex, the gilded surface of which reflected the sun's rays and so made manifest the god's presence in the stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
The attempt to pare away the fetishistic icons and idols, the pantheons of petitionable divinities, to reduce all this superstitous baggage down to the abstract, ascetic, aniconic idea of YHVH, ultimately runs up against our stubborn inabilities and refusals to deal in abstraction. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark And Hidden God] Reference
The earliest form of her worship, and one which proved very persistent, was apparently aniconic. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea-Kings of Crete] Reference
N. - the inability to be happy aniconic adj. - without idols; (of objects of worship) portrayed symbolically rather than representationally. aniconism. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
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