heliotheism
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heliotheism (uncountable)
- (theology) Worship of the Sun; belief that the Sun is a god.
- 1905, Joseph McCabe (translator), Ernst Haeckel (author), The Riddle of the Universe: At the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 280:
- 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, Joseph McCabe (translator), Ernst Haeckel (author), The Riddle of the Universe: At the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 280:
Synonyms[edit]
- (worship of the Sun): solarism, sun worship
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Translations[edit]
worship of the sun as a god
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