Diipetes

As Diipetes ( gr ΔΙΙΠΕΤΕΣ ) Diopetes or Iovis proles are referred to in pantheistic religions images of heavenly origin, ie the Äquilvalent Greek antiquity to the Christian Acheiropoieton.

Cicero said Diipetes or Acheiropoieta when he spoke of a miraculous image of Ceres, the "non humana manu factum sed de Caelo lapsum " ( " not made ​​by human hands, but by universal faith fallen from the sky ").

In the Acts of the Apostles speaks of a work goldgewandeten image of Artemis made ​​of dark timber from Ephesus, from which a heavenly origin is claimed.

Also in the temple of Athena of the Acropolis of Athens was located around 520 BC in Peripteros a wooden idol of the Goddess, the Zeus of the saga thrown out of heaven have.