thearchy

The threat of thearchy: a resurgence of demands for "rule by God" -- and of widespread fundamentalist thinking -- could bode ill for world peace, says a business futurist.

OpEdNews - Diary: How Will the World End? 2008

The Siouan thearchy was invoked and adored by means of forms and ceremonies, as well as through orisons.

The Siouan Indians 1882

The organization of the vague Siouan thearchy appears to have varied from group to group.

The Siouan Indians 1882

Commonly the arts and the skill of the mystical huntsman improve from youth to adolescence and from generation to generation, so that the later animals appear to be easier snared or slain than the earlier; moreover, the accounts of conflicts between men and animals grow by repetition and are gilded by imagination as memory grows dim; and for these and other reasons the notion grows up that the ancient animals were stronger, swifter, slier, statelier, deadlier than their modern representatives, and the hierarchy of petty gods is exalted into an omnipotent thearchy.

The Siouan Indians 1882

As among so many peoples, the sun is a prominent element; the ice-monsters of the north and the rain-myths of the arid region are lacking, and are replaced by the frequent thunder and the trees shaken by the storm-winds; the mythic creatures are shaped in the image of the indigenous animals and birds; the myths center in the local rocks and waters; the mysterious thearchy corresponds with the tribal hierarchy, and the attributes ascribed to the deities are those characteristic of warriors and hunters.

The Siouan Indians 1882

I think personally I just dislike the central conceit behind his Messenger Chronicles—Aseneshesh’s thearchy, the messengers, Chan.

Lit Bits iamrazorwing 2007