Diipetes
As Diipetes (Gr. Διιπετής), Diopetes or Iovis proles are images of heavenly origin, the equivalent of Greek antiquity to Christian Acheiropoieton .
In classical Greek, the word diipetes only denotes meteorological phenomena, above all rain (and, according to the ancient idea, spring rivers fed by rain) and lightning; on the other hand, the more common word diopetes is used for images of gods that have fallen from heaven; z. B. also in the Acts of the Apostles ( Acts 19,35 EU ) for the cult image in the temple of Artemis of Ephesus , of which a heavenly origin is claimed.
Also in the Athena temple of the Acropolis of Athens was around 520 BC. In the Peripteros a wooden idol of the goddess, which Zeus, according to legend, threw from heaven.
See also
literature
- Hans Belting : image and cult. A history of the image before the age of art . 5th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-37768-8 .
- Ernst von Dobschütz : Images of Christ. Research on the Christian legend . Hinrichs, Leipzig 1899, Texts and Studies on the History of Early Christian Literature Vol. 18.
Web links
- http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/sharp/issues/0001/Papers_pdf/ChrisTownsend.pdf - Transcendent Replication: Self Portraiture, Verae icones and Photography (by Chris Townsend; English; PDF file)
Περιοδικό ΔΙΙΠΕΤΕΣ is also a Greek journal of the (pagan) Hellenic religion founded in 1991 ( In Defense of the Ancient Psyche , ISSN 1106-1685 ); see. [1] , [2] and [3] .