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What does aniconic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to representations without human or animal form.
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In his own aniconic way, as Kiely argues, Augustine was an artist.
Still other images are aniconic and found in nature, such as a special type of fossil known as the shalagrama that is sacred to the god Vishnu.
Art in the service of religion, those pieces that would be encountered in mosques, is indeed aniconic.
This is not necessarily the case with the worshipper of aniconic or unshaped gods.
It is a widely known fact that modern Zoroastrian worship is aniconic, with fire serving as the only icon of the divine.
All the others take the form of anthropomorphs either attached to a central aniconic shaft or addorsed by a tree.

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