Pandeism
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Etymology 1
; from and . First used in the variation "Pandeisten" (pandeists) by Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft (1859), p. 262.
Etymology 2
Blend of Pande- from Pandu and the Pandavas (figures from the historical mythology of India) and -ism.
Noun
- a secret religious sect hypothesized to exist in a range extending from India to Europe and Northern Africa
- I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins. Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis: Or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions (1833), p.439.