Cult image

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What Wikipedia says

In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the person, deity, spirit, or daemon that it embodies or represents.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Cult image”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.