Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Worship of the sun.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The worship of the sun. See
sun-worship .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sun worship. See
sabianism .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
worship of thesun as an actual religion/mythos, or euphemistically, as in sunbathing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the worship of the sun
Etymologies
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Examples
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Too many of them apply to it facile generalizations, such as "heliolatry," "animism,"
American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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But she misspelled "heliolatry" in Round 22, and Kyle correctly spelled "dirigible" and then "nectarivorous," for good measure.
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Widespread over the earth has been, and still is, the worship of the sun; some mythologists, indeed, would go too far and explain almost every feature of savage and barbarous religion as a sun-myth or as smacking of heliolatry.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Indic worship of the sun, India took no new religion from Persia; but it is very possible that her own antique and preserved heliolatry was aided, and acquired new strength from more modern contact with the sun-worshippers of the West.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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The heliolatry organized principally for political ends by the Incas of Peru, stands alone in the religions of the red race.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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-- The vague deism of Constantine strove to reconcile the opposition of heliolatry and Christianity (Burckhardt, _Die
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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