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Today's Word "heliolatry"

Worship of the sun on

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heliolatry \hee-lee-OL-uh-tree\ (noun) - Worship of the sun.

"I am certain that if our preparations for greeting the returning sun were seen by other people, either civilised or savage, we would be thought disciples of heliolatry." -- Frederick Albert Cook, Through the first Antarctic night

 

Heliolatry stems from the Greek helio-, "sun," and -latry, "worship."


 

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