different between omophagia vs omophagy

English

From Ancient Greek ???????? (?mophagía), from ???? (?mós, “raw”) (see omo-) + -????? (-phagía) (see -phagia for more).

omophagia (plural omophagias)

The eating of raw food, especially raw flesh.
- 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History
  Uncomfortably, I thought of the Bacchae: hooves and bloody ribs, scraps dangling from the fir trees. There was a word for it in Greek: omophagia.

From omo- +? -phagy.

omophagy (countable and uncountable, plural omophagies)

The eating of raw flesh. [from 19th c.]
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
  Omophagy, ritual eating of raw flesh, is the assimilation and internalization of godhead.

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