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Definition of Omophagy
1. the eating of raw flesh [n -GIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Omophagy
Literary usage of Omophagy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phases of Early Christianity, Six Lectures by Joseph Estlin Carpenter (1916)
"The devotees who took part in this omophagy" received the deity into themselves.
The believer became entheos, he was so closely identified with the object ..."
2. After Life in Roman Paganism: Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the by Franz Valery Marie Cumont (1922)
"This idea goes back to the most primitive savagery, as is seen in the rite
of "omophagy" in which certain votaries of Bacchus fiercely tore the raw flesh of ..."
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