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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