Meaning of hoplolatry | Babel Free

Definitions

The worship of weapons.

uncountable

Examples

“The shield need not be on the altar; and, if it is, the scene may be one of Pa/fddion-v/orship, or even of mere hoplolatry.”

“Of immediate value is the author's interpretation of the hoplolatry of the Greeks. A weapon does not, of necessity, owe its sanctity to a god, but a case is cited in which a god grew out of a weapon.”

“We must then clear our minds of all notion that the hoplolatry of the Greeks implies anthropomorphism.”

“Cretans may have practised, such as fetishism, hoplolatry, dendrolatry, zoolatry, the cult of celestial bodies, ancestor cult.”

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