#xoanon

[thetelesterion]

Xoanon of Dionysos, covered with ivy and grapevines.

[arjuna-vallabha]

Artist's representation of a xoanon, or cult image, in this case a Chryselephantine sculpture, which was based on the remains of statues found at Delphi in Greece by artist Juan Alvarez de Lara

[doolallymagpie]

apparently it’s been suggested that xoanon’s non-tom baker voices were other doctors

which means somewhere in time, there might be a doctor running around looking like our good friend dr. rachel jensen from countermeasures

[witchcraftingboop]

I know you're fucking lying. Ain't no way THP has the largest balls of any other failing publishing house out this bitch. Bold af. Talking bout some "oops!" biiittcchhhh 😂 I have moved twice and emailed/messaged them a number of times trying to just update my shipping address for TGM with no response or acknowledgement, and then they go and post this?? The sheer audacity of this mf

[haremask]

andrew chumbley, opuscula magica

[lailoken]

‘PRAYER OF THE BAETYLUS’

“O' Mask of the Companie that speaketh unto mortal flesh,

O’ Ward and Sentinel of the World-Field,

North-Bearer from the Place of Power

To the Point of the Golden Nail.

Proclaim thy Law in the Hidden Cipher of the Sabbat.

Hallowed be thy star-graven body l,

The Tabula Sacra to embrace and exalt the Flesh of the Wise.

For thou art the Wilderness Rock 

Bearing good water to the Exile's cup;

Thou art the Idol Unbroken,

That waymark of old amid the wastes,

Which led the Daughters of Men astray.

Thou art the Ancestral Cenotaph

Whence all forgotten books are reclaimed,

Ever to stand aright in our Circle of Midnight round.

O' Lila-Baytul-A, Black Shrine of Our Mystery

In solitude proclaim thy power and testimony

For the forth-coming of the Word of ONE.”

—

Lapis Lamiis:

The Arcanum of the Stone Xoanon

by Andrew D. Chumbley

[elvthron]

From Daniel Schulke's "Ars Philtron"

In the book is specified that the best water to make liquid preparations is the (rain)water gathered in the hour of the planet who's influence should dominate the preparation. The table "reveals one cycle of these hours, generally considered by modern Alchemists to be the best."

[lurking-latinist]

it is not, I think, a terribly widely known fact that Xoanon is one of the many, many names that Doctor Who pinched from Greek: a xoanon is a kind of semi-pictorial cult statue from archaic Greece. It’s actually pretty fitting, since Xoanon’s whole thing is about being an object of worship.

(Yes, the Wikipedia page does have a disambiguation for Face of Evil.)

The Wikipedia page also has this image of a xoanon:

So really in Face of Evil they should’ve used the waxwork.