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heliotheism en · NOUN

Etymology

From helio- + theism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The worship of the Sun; the belief that the Sun is a god.
    • Sun-worship (solarism, or heliotheism) seems to the modern scientist to be the best of all forms of theism, and the one which may be most easily reconciled with modern monism. 1905, Ernst Haeckel, translated by Joseph McCabe, The Riddle of the Universe: At the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 280:

Deriveds

heliotheistic · heliotheist

Synonyms

sun worship (worship of the Sun) · solarism (worship of the Sun) · heliolatry (worship of the Sun)

Translations (5)

es elioteísmo (worship of the sun as a god) · pt heliolatria (worship of the sun as a god) · de Heliotheismus (worship of the sun as a god) · fi auringonpalvonta (worship of the sun as a god) · it elioteismo (worship of the sun as a god)