kathenotheism

Meaning

Noun

• Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.

Related

Broader meaning words

• henotheism

Origin

• Coined 19th century by Max Müller from the phrase Ancient Greek ("one by one") and the word θεός, following theism, extending the prior coinage henotheism by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling which himself popularised.