zoolatry
/zoh-ol-uh-tree/US // zoʊˈɒl ə tri //UK // (zəʊˈɒlətrɪ) //
动物学,动植物学,鸟类学,动物园
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the worship of or excessive attention to animals.
Examples
Clemens Alexandrinus, again, after describing the animal-worship of the Egyptians, mentions cases of zoolatry in Greece.
Remnants of the old Semitic zoolatry perpetuated themselves until the end of paganism and even later.
In these beliefs zoolatry, litholatry and all the other nature worships outlived the savagery that had created them.
Similarly, why resort to an ancestor worship to explain zoolatry?
De Brosses, very unluckily, confused zoolatry with other superstitions under the head of Fetichism.
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