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| rdfs:comment | - A xoanon (Greek: ξόανον; plural: ξόανα xoana, from the verb ξέειν, xeein, to carve or scrape [wood]) was an Archaic wooden cult image of Ancient Greece. Classical Greeks associated such cult objects, whether aniconic or effigy, with the legendary Daedalus. Many such cult images were preserved into historical times, though none have survived to the modern day, except where their image was copied in stone or marble. In the 2nd century CE, Pausanias described numerous xoana in his Description of Greece, notably the image of Hera in her temple at Samos. "The statue of Samian Hera, as Aethilos says, was a wooden beam at first, but afterwards, when Prokles was ruler, it was humanized in form" In Pausanias' travels he never mentions seeing a xoanon of a mortal man.
- Xoanon existed within the main computer complex, later called the "Sacred Heart" by the Tesh, a room composed of several screens with a sphere-like podium in the middle which held a hexagonal screen that flashed as he spoke. The only face he ever projected was that of the Doctor's and these appeared on screens and as three-dimensional "phantoms". (TV: The Face of Evil)
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| Clip | - We are Xoanon - The Face of Evil - Doctor Who - BBC
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| other actor | - Pamela Salem
- Rob Edwards
- Roy Herrick
- Anthony Frieze
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| abstract | - A xoanon (Greek: ξόανον; plural: ξόανα xoana, from the verb ξέειν, xeein, to carve or scrape [wood]) was an Archaic wooden cult image of Ancient Greece. Classical Greeks associated such cult objects, whether aniconic or effigy, with the legendary Daedalus. Many such cult images were preserved into historical times, though none have survived to the modern day, except where their image was copied in stone or marble. In the 2nd century CE, Pausanias described numerous xoana in his Description of Greece, notably the image of Hera in her temple at Samos. "The statue of Samian Hera, as Aethilos says, was a wooden beam at first, but afterwards, when Prokles was ruler, it was humanized in form" In Pausanias' travels he never mentions seeing a xoanon of a mortal man.
- Xoanon existed within the main computer complex, later called the "Sacred Heart" by the Tesh, a room composed of several screens with a sphere-like podium in the middle which held a hexagonal screen that flashed as he spoke. The only face he ever projected was that of the Doctor's and these appeared on screens and as three-dimensional "phantoms". (TV: The Face of Evil)
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