What's the difference between pantheon and polytheism?

Pantheon


Definition:

  • (n.) A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.
  • (n.) The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The MPC likely will place much more weight at next week’s meeting on the weak official data for the first quarter than on April’s better PMIs, and we expect Kristin Forbes to remain alone in voting to raise interest rates,” said Samuel Tombs, the chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.
  • (2) Sadly there's a distinct lack of bushy facial features on show in Germany this summer, although should Gennaro Gattuso steer clear of a razor and Italy go all the way, then he'll surely be eligible to join Batista in the pantheon of hirsute legends.
  • (3) No place for Suarez in the Uruguayan World Cup pantheon alongside Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Alcides Ghiggia and Obdulio Varela (who would have dealt with Giorgio Chiellini by giving him a sharp clip around the ear, and got away with it too, but that's another story).
  • (4) In the pantheon of this comedian's attacks on Thatcher, it was a retort that probably won't be treasured longer than the best lines from The Young Ones.
  • (5) Few figures in the pantheon of the NSW barristers’ trade union are more saintly than Sir Garfield Barwick.
  • (6) (Cripps, chancellor in the final period of the Attlee government, was a symbol of austerity in the Labour pantheon).
  • (7) In the pantheon of American poets, Woody belongs midway between Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan , but it is his roots in Oklahoma that give his work an authentic voice, ringing out from the dusty midwestern plains: a welcome antidote to the easy jibe that, if you're poor and white in this part of the world, you're bound to be a redneck.
  • (8) It's hard to say why Felt and Denim never enjoyed the success of many of their peers, or why Go Kart Mozart haven't been included in the pantheon of XL-approved heritage acts.
  • (9) I got a whole pantheon of Sally Field references in here,” he grins, tapping his head, a reference to the hysterically anti-Iranian 1991 film.
  • (10) There is very small pantheon of great reforming education secretaries who have genuinely created change.
  • (11) In some quarters, the reception has been so adulatory that you could have been fooled into thinking that he had won himself a place alongside Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of great orators and the Gettysburg Address now had a rival in the Bloomberg Speech.
  • (12) Other surveys pointed to continued recession, said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.
  • (13) She said the other major site under threat from the militants was Ashur, a Unesco world heritage site on the banks of the Tigris not far from Mosul , named after the chief god of the Assyrian pantheon.
  • (14) Perhaps greater regulation of the food industry, with its love of marketing at children with a pantheon of quite horrible cartoon characters and its happy facilitation of access to sugars and fats in inappropriate places, would help?
  • (15) However grudging the judgment sounds it will stick to him in the pantheon.
  • (16) Losses look inevitable, and a pantheon of psephologists predict 150, 190, more,” said the BBC’s deputy political editor, John Pienaar just 24 hours ago.
  • (17) In between winning three Oscars , having four children, keeping bees and studying music, Murch recently investigated new links between the architecture of the Pantheon, the work of Copernicus and the origins of heliocentrism in western astronomy.
  • (18) 1991 Graduates with a master of laws and a master of advanced studies in criminal law from Pantheon-Assas University in Paris, France's leading law school.
  • (19) For all his achievement and worth, I don't think Perry Anderson quite fits in the pantheon the obituary suggests.
  • (20) This is the prize all physicists want , a chance to be remembered in the same pantheon as Max Planck , Richard Feynman , Niels Bohr , Marie Curie , Werner Heisenberg and, of course, Albert Einstein .

Polytheism


Definition:

  • (n.) The doctrine of, or belief in, a plurality of gods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He rejected what he saw as pagan accretions introduced by bid’a (innovation) and shirk (idolatry or polytheism), which detracts from the absolute transcendence of God.