Diipetes are objects, likely
meteorite fragments, with coincidental human and animal forms, venerated in
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece ( el, Ἑλλάς, Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of Classical Antiquity, classical antiquity ( AD 600), th ...
as "thrown by the gods". See also
Acheiropoetos (literally ‘not-made-by-hand’), an early Judeo-Christian tradition, and
icon
An icon () is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Catholic churches. They are not simply artworks; "an icon is a sacred image used in religious devotion". The most ...
.
Examples
* Diipetes Xoano of Athena
Other uses
The ''Diipetes Journal'' is a quarterly journal in
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
published in Greece covering classical
paganism and
Hellenic polytheism since 1991.
References
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Religious objects
Ancient Greek religion