I spent the day at the Native Heritage Center here in Anchorage. If you come to town, it's well worth the fee to walk around the joint, hear stories and songs, and hear perspectives from all over the state. Peace.
iconoclast |īˈkänəˌklast|
noun
1 a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.
2 a destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular
• historical a supporter of the 8th- and 9th-century movement in the Byzantine Church that sought to abolish the veneration of icons and other religious images.
• historical a Puritan of the 16th or 17th century.
DERIVATIVES
iconoclastic |īˌkänəˈklastik| adjective
iconoclastically |īˌkänəˈklastik(ə)lē| adverb
ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (sense 2) : via medieval Latin from ecclesiastical Greek eikonoklastēs, from eikōn ‘likeness’ + klan ‘to break.’
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