Nimbi <g>

Amy Z aiz24 at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 21 19:12:54 UTC 2001


Jen wrote on the main list:

> There was no god Nimbus, but
>the word is also used to refer to the circle behinds the heads of 
>gods
>or holy persons in (just Christian?) iconography.

This circle appears in Buddhist iconography too.  I don't know if 
scholars of Buddhist art call it a nimbus, but it looks the same and 
has more or less the same meaning as in Christianity.

Amy Z





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