Theophagy is a word of Ancient Greek origin that means `the feeding on a god` or `eating/devouring god`, from θεός (Theós, `god”) and the suffix -phagy (to feed on, to eat/devour). In fertility rituals, the harvested grain may itself be the reborn god of vegetation. This practice has origins in ancient religions: Dionysus and many exa...
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sacramental consumption of a god
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theophagy 1. The practice or ritual eating god, or of the thing symbolizing god, such as a sacrament. 2. The eating of God (in the mass or communion rite); the communion. 3. In anthropology, the eating of meals at which the participants believe that they ingest a deity with the consecrated food.
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