xoanon
Noun
Meaning
xoanon (plural xoana)
(historical) A wooden statue used as a cult image in Ancient Greece.
Examples
However, they cannot remember who made this xoanon or how it caught fire; but when it was destroyed the Phigalians gave no new image to the goddess and largely neglected her festivals and sacrifices, until finally barrenness fell upon the land.
Her xoanon of Phigaleia shows how the local cult interpreted her, as goddess of nature.
She explains Xoanon has been quiet, and he interprets this as success for his extraction experiment.
Xoanon briefly takes control of Leela's mind, as he does of most of the Sevateem.