geolatry
English
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editgeolatry (uncountable)
- The worship of the Earth.
- 1864, George William Cox, Tales of Thebes and Argos:
- To this succeeded astrolatry in the East, and geolatry in the West, where the idea of the earth as a susceptible and productive agent led to the distinction of male and female divinities
References
edit“geolatry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.