hoplolatry

English

Etymology

From hoplo- +‎ -latry.

Noun

hoplolatry (uncountable)

1. (religion) The worship of weapons.
   • 1914, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus a Study in Ancient Religion (Greek Mythology), 2Yk8AAAAIAAJ:

     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.

   • 1918, Eli Mayer, War and Religion: A Sociological Study (War), ZXRqwkKm1WEC:

     Of 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.

   • 1927, J.E. Harrison, Themis (History), →ISBN:

     We must then clear our minds of all notion that the hoplolatry of the Greeks implies anthropomorphism.

   • 1944, Brill, Cretan Religion in Relation to Greek Religion‎^[1]:

     Cretans may have practised, such as fetishism, hoplolatry, dendrolatry, zoolatry, the cult of celestial bodies, ancestor cult.