heliotheism

Etymology

From helio- + theism.

heliotheism means The worship of the Sun; the belief that the Sun is a god. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

Why this word is great

HELIOTHEISM — [Noun] The worship of the Sun as a deity; the belief that the Sun is a god. From the combining form helio- (from Greek hēlios, "sun") and -theism (from Greek theos, "god"), meaning "belief in a god." Unlike henotheism, which elevates one deity among many, or a solar cult, which codifies specific rituals of veneration, heliotheism is the pure theological premise that the life-giving disc itself is divine. It is the Pharaoh’s unblinking gaze at the Aten’s disk, the Inca priest’s sacrifice at dawn, and the farmer’s instinctive turn toward the blinding, golden eye—a faith born not from abstraction, but from the daily, visceral proof of a power that grants life and imposes the final, absolute night.

noun

The worship of the Sun; the belief that the Sun is a god.“Sun-worship (solarism, or heliotheism) seems to the modern scientist to be the best of all forms of theism, and the one which may be most easily reconciled with modern monism.”