godlore

Etymology

From god + lore (“learning, study of”). Compare German Gotteslehre, Danish gudelære.

godlore means the study or knowledge of God or gods; theology; divinity; mythology; religion. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why “godlore” is a great word

GODLORE — [Noun] The encompassing body of knowledge, study, and tradition concerning a deity or deities, spanning the formal, mythical, and folkloric. From god (deity) + lore (learning, study). Compare German Gotteslehre, Danish gudelære. Unlike theology, which implies a formal and often doctrinally-bound system, or mythology, which denotes a culture's curated narrative corpus, godlore is the broader, archival term for the whole human inheritance of the divine. It is the weight of a Sumerian cuneiform tablet, the patient logic of a scholastic disputation, and the grandmother's tale of how the trickster stole the moon—the total, whispering archive of our attempts to map the unknowable.

noun

The study or knowledge of God or gods; theology; divinity; mythology; religion.“All these have apparently nothing to do with northern mythology, as was first supposed. The whole find has now reached the Danish National Museum, and we see that these pieces belong to the godlore of the Gallic peoples.”