Meanings
plural theocrasies · alternative theocrasia · alternative theokrasia
- countableuncountableNeopagan theologyInteraction, admixture, and conflation of divine principles.
Duotheism¹ (two deities) is what Neopagans call a religion in which the duotheologians claim that there are two deities, usually of opposite gender, and that all other spirits are aspects or faces of these two, through a process known as theocrasy² (deity mingling).
2007: Isaac Bonewits, Neopagan Rites: A Guide to Creating Public Rituals That Work, chapter 1: “Defining Our Terms”, page 3 (first edition; Llewellyn; →ISBN)
Origin
- Ancient Greekκρᾶσις“mixing, tempering”
- Ancient Greekθεός“god”
- Englishtheocrasy
From theo- (“god”) + -crasy (“mixing”), from Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god”) and Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixing, tempering”).
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