(urth) "Latro"

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

For what it's worth, "-latry" is an important term in Catholicism, usually
in the form "latria." Latria is the worship to which only God is
entititled; what we offer to the saints in general is "dulia," respect or
reverence, and to Mary, "hyperdulia," extreme reverence.

Wolfe just *might* know that...:)

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Mo Holkar <mo at holkar.net> wrote:

> "-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÷2’Ò6­ævƒÂàd λατÏ
>> εΣ¬HŠ]™ZXJHHÛÜœÚ\
>> H\ÈH™XÛÙÛš][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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