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The earliest reference to any wooden idol made in India goes to the legend of Jīvantasvāmī – a sandalwood image of Mahāvīra or Vardhamāna, [3] the last Tīrthaṅkara of Jain pantheon. It is said that the idol was carved in his lifetime and worshiped by his followers. [ 4 ]
The Shigir Sculpture, or Shigir Idol (Russian: Шигирский идол), is the oldest known wooden sculpture. [1] [2] It is estimated to have been carved c. 11,500 years ago, or during the early Holocene period, and is twice as old as Egypt's Great Pyramid. [3] The wood it was carved from is approximately 12,000 years old. [4]
Anthropomorphic Iron Age wooden cult figures, sometimes called pole gods, have been found at many archaeological sites in Central and Northern Europe. They are generally interpreted as cult images, in some cases presumably depicting deities, sometimes with either a votive or an apotropaic (protective) function.
Jagannatha Dasa (c. 1490–1550), known by the honorific Atibadi, meaning "very great" (Odia: ଅତିବଡ଼ି ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ଦାସ, romanized: Atibaḍi Jagannātha Dāsa, Odia: [ɔt̪ibɔɽi d͡ʒɔɡɔnnaːt̪ʰɔ d̪aːsɔ] ⓘ), was an Odia poet and litterateur.
In many contexts "cult image" specifically means the most important image in a temple, kept in an inner space, as opposed to what may be many other images decorating the temple. The term idol is an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship, [1] [2] [3] while idolatry is the worship of an "idol" as though it were God. [4] [5] [6]
It resembles some ancient idol, or rather a tombstone, on one end of which you can discern a half-erased image of a human face in a pointed headdress with an ornament, in which a wheel with six spokes is clearly visible - a solar or thunder sign; below the face there is a protrusion, as if arms folded on the chest.
Ashtadhatu (Sanskrit: अष्टधातु, romanized: Aṣṭadhātu, lit. 'eight metals'), also called octo-alloy, is an alloy comprising the eight metals of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, tin, iron, and mercury, [1] [2] often used for casting metallic idols for Jain and Hindu temples in India.
Achilles' sacrifice of Trojan prisoners, 4th-century BC fresco from Vulci.The eidolon of Patroclus is second from left.. In ancient Greek literature, an eidolon (/ aɪ ˈ d oʊ l ɒ n /; [1] Ancient Greek: εἴδωλον 'image, idol, double, apparition, phantom, ghost'; plural: eidola or eidolons) is a spirit-image of a living or dead person; a shade or phantom look-alike of the human form.