Zoolatry

//zoʊˈɑlətɹi//

Synonyms for "zoolatry" (3 found)

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Translations

10 translations across 8 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

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  • 動物崇拜 /动物崇拜 noun (worship of animals)

Esperanto

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  • zoolatrio noun (worship of animals)

Finnish

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  • eläintenpalvonta noun (worship of animals)
  • zoolatria noun (worship of animals)

French

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  • zoolâtrie noun (worship of animals)

German

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  • Zoolatrie noun (worship of animals)

Greek

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  • ζωολατρία noun (worship of animals)

Japanese

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  • 動物崇拝 noun (worship of animals)

Polish

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  • animalizm noun (worship of animals)
  • zoolatria noun (worship of animals)

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our souls in infancy are scarred with ancient fears as of big eyes, teeth, fur. This stratum is one of the very richest layers in paleopsychic development, and its outcrops in the many varied zoolatries of savage life[…] [illustrate] the way in which the stages of a child’s development repeat those through which the race has passed.

Source: wiktionary

Excessive zoolatry and heka practices had always been fundamental aspects of Egyptian religion and lifestyles, but from about the Late Period (c. 747 BC), they increasingly became tinged with fundamentalism and fanaticism.

Source: wiktionary

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