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n. - The worship of animals.

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  • Athenian comic writers frequently made fun of the Egyptian zoolatry
  • Remnants of the old Semitic zoolatry perpetuated themselves until the end of paganism and even later.
  • In these beliefs zoolatry, litholatry and all the other nature worships outlived the savagery that had created them.
  • On the other hand Guyan calls Naturism, Physiolatry, of which zoolatry, i. e., worship of animals, is a department (The Non-Religion of the Future, New York,
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