The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

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667. Icon—An image crafted by humans to symbolize or be reminiscent of something cherished, worshipped, or observed as a deity. A small-scale model of a life-size object. 668. Iddo—A scribal seer who served kings Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijah. The name means “festal.” 669. Idol—An object, being, creature, or place worshipped, trusted, and relied on as a god. Ideals, concepts, doctrines, and beliefs of a religious nature invented or concocted in the psyche of the worshipper can also be contrived as idols. 670. Idolatry—Worship of another god or of objects, symbols, people, accomplishments, concepts, and ideals considered superior to that of the worshipper. Devotion and veneration given to representations of the same. Obeisance and subservience paid to a deity or objects and places governed by a false god. 671. Ifa—A geomantic form of divination where sand lines and other earth markings are interpreted for fortune-telling and predicting the future, irrespective of fortunes. Blended with voodoo Santeria, the religion bases its divinatory techniques on pine nuts, wood dust, and a divining shaman priest. The idea is to get the distant disinterested creator who abandoned his handiwork and hid in heaven to listen and answer life’s questions. Invoking the absent creator by way of mediating spirits and wrestling with a trickster god is how this religion gains its divinatory information. Ifa is practiced in North and West Africa by the Yorubas. 672. Illusion—An abnormal image or concept of actualities presented to the natural mind, often perverse in nature. 673. Image—A pictorial representation of something else; may be two-or three-dimensional. 674. Immortality—The state of being alive forever. Eternal, imperishable.