In the religions of highly developed cultures and in the universal religions, complicated systems of iconography have been developed. In the course of time, however, these systems have been subject to change. Icons (images) may depict the divine in its oneness and in the plurality of its differentiations, emanations, and incarnations, as well as human beings in their various relationships to the sphere of the holy. They may also depict the world as the stage of divine action, as the realm of the diabolical, or as the battleground of these two warring forces. They may portray evil, the diabolical, and ...(100 of 11146 words)