momentary god

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A specific phenomenon, such as a lightning bolt, interpreted and experienced as a deity.
    — Concentrating his attention on the conception of lightning, Usener discovers a transition in the way lightning is conceived: initially experienced as an exclamation in response to a "momentary god"—Zeus originally meant "he who thunders"—[…]

词形变化

momentary gods plural

词源

Calque of German Augenblicksgott, coined by Hermann Usener in his Götternamen in 1896.
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