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  • noun The religion of the Sabians; Sabianism
  • noun worship of the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry; astrolatry

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Examples

  • One form of that most ancient worship was known as Sabaism, or Sabism.

    Astral Worship J. H. Hill

  • Europe with this singular knowledge; just as Mr. Sale lived a long time in Arabia to give us a faithful translation of the Koran and information relative to ancient Sabaism, which has been succeeded by the Mussulman religion; and as Dr. Hyde continued for twenty years his researches into everything concerning the religion of the

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Truth was buried beneath the rubbish of Sabaism, and the idolatrous adoration of the sun and stars had taken the place of the olden worship of the true God.

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • Sabaism (worship of the heavenly hosts) and hero-worship were blended in his person.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • What seems sufficiently obvious is all that I care to maintain, namely, that these shepherd-astronomers were of Chaldæan birth and training, and therefore astrologers, though, unlike their Chaldæan kinsmen, they rejected Sabaism or star-worship, and taught the belief in one only

    Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

  • This city has always been remarkable for its attachment to Sabaism

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • As to those who seek for an astronomical interpretation of the legend, in which the annual changes of the sun are symbolized, while the ingenuity with which they press their argument cannot but be admired, it is evident that, by such an interpretation, they yield all that Masonry has gained of religious development in past ages, and fall back upon that corruption and perversion of Sabaism from which it was the object, even of the

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • [5] A recent writer thus eloquently refers to the universality, in ancient times, of sun-worship: "Sabaism, the worship of light, prevailed amongst all the leading nations of the early world.

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • Original Sources of the Qur'an ", London, 1905, 55-211.) + Sabaism, a combination of Judaism, Manicheism, and old disfigured

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • If I looked unto the sun (as an object of worship) because he shined; or to the moon because she walked, &c. Sabaism (from tsaba,

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

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