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. |