(urth) "Latro"
Mo Holkar
mo at holkar.net
Wed Apr 22 02:42:26 PDT 2015
"-latry" as a suffix can be found with a number
of other prefixes, perhaps most familiarly in
"idolatry". Of course Wolfe was thinking of the
play on latro in Latin meaning thief, while
latreia in Greek means worship: but it seems a
bit of a stretch of inference to see hidden
meaning in the "mono-" prefixed version specifically?
best,
Mo
At 23:38 21/04/2015, David wrote:
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64I just
>encountered a new word---that is, a word that's new to me. Not,
>I'm sure, to this forum. The Greek root is only part of it, though its
>similarity to "Latro" is new to me too.
>
>I'll just quote from the Wiki and let people
>draw their own conclusions about Latro's name in
>the context of Wolfe's theories about gods and God.
>
>*Monolatrism or monolatry* (Greek:
>μó¯s¯ð"Ööæ÷2Ò6ævÂàd λαÏÏεΣ¬H]ZXJHHÛÜÚ\
>H\ÈHXÛÙÛ][Û of the existence of many gods,
>but with the consistent worship of only one deity.
>
>An example given is Akhenaten's heresy, Atenism.
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