English
iconotropy
From icon + -o- + -tropy.
Formed from icon + -o- + -tropy
Ancient Greek εἰκών ‘likeness, image, portrait’
Latin īcōn ‘image, artistic representation of a thing’
English icon
Today it means
noun the accidental or deliberate misinterpretation by one culture of the icons or myths of an earlier one, especially so as to bring them into accord with those of the later one
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Etymograph / iconotropy