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Heliotheist vs Heliotheism - What's the difference?

heliotheist | heliotheism |

As nouns the difference between heliotheist and heliotheism

is that heliotheist is one who practices heliotheism; a sun worshiper; one who believes the sun to be a god while heliotheism is (theology) worship of the sun; belief that the sun is a god.

heliotheist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who practices heliotheism; a sun worshiper; one who believes the sun to be a god.

    • heliotheism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (theology) Worship of the Sun; belief that the Sun is a god.
  • * 1905 , Joseph McCabe (translator), (author), The Riddle of the Universe: At the Close of the Nineteenth Century , Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 280:
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (worship of the Sun) solarism, , heliolatry

    Derived terms

    * heliotheist * heliotheistic