Heliolatry

Too many of them apply to it facile generalizations, such as "heliolatry," "animism," ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)

But she misspelled "heliolatry" in Round 22, and Kyle correctly spelled "dirigible" and then "nectarivorous," for good measure. ❋ JENNIFER TOWERY (2009)

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. ❋ Alexander F. Chamberlain (N/A)

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. ❋ Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)

The heliolatry organized principally for political ends by the Incas of Peru, stands alone in the religions of the red race. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)

-- The vague deism of Constantine strove to reconcile the opposition of heliolatry and Christianity (Burckhardt, _Die ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)