different between pantheon vs thearchy

English

Etymology

From Pantheon, c. 1300.

Pronunciation

Noun

pantheon (plural pantheons or panthea)

1. A temple dedicated to all the gods.
2. (mythology) All the gods of a particular people or religion, particularly the ancient Greek gods residing on Olympus, considered as a group.
3. (by extension) A category or classification denoting the most honored persons of a group.

Translations

Further reading

• pantheon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pantheon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pantheon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Finnish

Noun

pantheon

1. pantheon (the gods of a religion as a group)
2. pantheon (temple or monument)

Declension

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (thearkhía), from ???? (theós, “god”) + -????? (-arkhía, “rule, ruling”).

Noun

thearchy (countable and uncountable, plural thearchies)

1. A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.
   • 1643, Subject of Supremacie, 42:

     There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie, or divine dynastie.

   • 1643, Maximes Unfolded, 8:

     Thearchie, or Gods Government in Families, a Nation, and all Nations.

   • 1863, G.J. Whyte-Melville, Gladiators, I?254:

     [The Jew's] belief in that direct thearchy, to which he was bound by the ties of gratitude.

2. A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.)
   • 1852, P.J. Bailey, Festus, 11:

     From rank to rank in Thearchy divine, We angel raylets gladden in thy sight.

   • 1876, W.E. Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism, 245:

     Pan was one of the younger gods in the Hellenic thearchy.

   • 1899 Dec. 1, Literary Guide, 178?1:

     When Jesus entered upon his ministry, the Olympian thearchy […] was already tottering to its fall.

Related terms

• thearch (1)
• theocracy (1)
• hierarchy (2)

References

Anagrams

• hatchery