zoolatry
The worship of animals.
uncountable
our souls in infancy are scarred with ancient fears as of big eyes, teeth, fur. This stratum is one of the very richest layers in paleopsychic development, and its outcrops in the many varied zoolatries of savage life[…] [illustrate] the way in which the stages of a child’s development repeat those through which the race has passed.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French zoolâtrie, New Latin zoolatria, from zoo- + -latry.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry zoolatry (CC BY-SA 4.0).