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icon
In Eastern Orthodoxy, the representation of sacred persons or events in murals, mosaics, or paintings on wood. After the Iconoclastic Controversy of the 8th-9th cent., which disputed the religious function and meaning of icons (see iconoclasm), the Eastern churches formulated an official doctrine that approved their use, stating that since God had assumed material form in the person of Jesus, he and other sacred personages could be represented in works of art. Usually depicting Jesus or Mary but also sometimes saints, icons are relied on as objects of veneration and as tools for instruction.
idol
Image or statue of a deity used as an object of worship. In Judaism, the making of any representation of God is strictly forbidden, as is the fashioning of any "graven image." Islam has also adhered to this rule. In Christianity, there has been a general acceptance of pictorial or sculpted images of Jesus and the saints and, on occasion, God, and Christianity has thus always faced the danger that such representations could be venerated superstitiously as idols. In Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism images of gods and saints are common; they are often the object of veneration. In Hinduism, a statue may be treated as a god as an act of devotion but loses its special status when the act of devotion is finished (see Durga-puja, puja).
Io
In Greek mythology, the daughter of the river god Argos, who drew Hera's jealousy when Zeus fell in love with her. Zeus changed her into a white heifer to protect her. Hera set the many-eyed creature Argus to watch over the heifer, but Zeus sent Hermes to lull Argus to sleep and kill him. Hera then sent a gadfly to pursue Io, who fled across Europe and crossed the bodies of water later named the Ionian Sea and the Bosporus ("Ford of the Cow") in her honor. When she arrived in Egypt she resumed her original form. She was later identified with the Egyptian goddess Isis.
Iowa
State (pop. 1997 est.: 2,852,000), midwestern U.S. It covers 56,275 sq mi (145,752 sq km); its capital is Des Moines. The Des Moines River flows across the state from northwest to southeast. The Mississippi River forms its E boundary, while the Missouri and the Big Sioux rivers define portions of its W boundary. The Sauk, Fox, Iowa, and Sioux Indians lived in the region when French explorers L. Jolliet and J. Marquette arrived in 1673. The U.S. acquired Iowa as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Following the Black Hawk War and purchase of E Iowa from the Sauk and Fox Indians in the 1830s, white settlement advanced rapidly. It became a territory in 1838 and was made the 29th state in 1846. After the Civil War, railroad expansion drew large waves of immigrants from the east and from Europe. After World War I population growth slowed. Its economy is based on agriculture, and Iowa is a leader in the U.S. production of livestock.
Ipoh
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