moe ma tadoe² place of worship of ancient gods; heathen temple

Part of Speech

noun

• • place of worship of ancient gods; heathen temple

  Literally

  gods' lair

Related entries

• Contains:
  • tadoe¹ ancestral spirit, representing the soul of an ancestor. These anonymous, invisible spirits haunt the island and live around humans / used metonymically for the bush, the wild, e.g. for certain plant names when they are not fit for human consumption and belong to the forest / representation of spirits through sculptures or headdresses / deity, ancestral god worshipped in ancient times / the Christian God
• Subentry:
  • mam tadoe place (typic. cave), whether covered or not, haunted by spirits or deities (tadoe); hence heathen temple