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What is "sun-worship"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sun-worship

1670s, from sun (n.) + worship (n.). Related: Sun-worshipper (1670s in the religious sense; 1941 as "devotee of sun-tanning").

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sun-worship

n. worship of the sun [syn: heliolatry]

Usage examples of "sun-worship".

Precisely the same custom obtained among the nations of Asia Minor and other parts of the continent of Asia, wherever sun-worship prevailed, at the periodical reproduction of the sacred fire, but not with the same bloody rites as in Mexico.

And the Axe of those sun-worshipping invaders was not the tree-felling Labrys: it was a tomahawk.