Meanings
- uncountablelifestyleThe worship of weapons.
We must then clear our minds of all notion that the hoplolatry of the Greeks implies anthropomorphism.
1927, J.E. Harrison, Themis (History), →ISBN3 more 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.
1914, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus a Study in Ancient Religion (Greek Mythology), 2Yk8AAAAIAAJOf 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.
1918, Eli Mayer, War and Religion: A Sociological Study (War), ZXRqwkKm1WECCretans may have practised, such as fetishism, hoplolatry, dendrolatry, zoolatry, the cult of celestial bodies, ancestor cult.
1944, Brill, Cretan Religion in Relation to Greek Religion
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