"Latro"

David Stockhoff · 22 Apr 2015, 16:48 · from 2015-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:48:22 -0400
Subject: (urth) "Latro"
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Huh! That suggests another dimension to "thief," since a thief takes 
what he is not "entitled" to. But I wouldn't know where to go from 
there, unless another god is involved. Thus, Marc's theory that Latro is 
Ahura Mazda fits, because AM would be taking God's rightful worship.

I didn't know that meaning of "-dule," which I have always seen rendered 
as "slave." Hierodules need not be slaves at all. In fact, if they are 
analogous to saints, it might be debatable whether they are meant to 
give reverence or receive it. Or both.

On 4/22/2015 11:42 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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: ????s??"?????2??6??v???d
>         ??????? ?????H?]?ZXJHH????\
>         H\?H?X????][?? 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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