polytheism
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- noun
- /ˈpɒlɪˌθiːɪzəm/
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politeísmo
- The ancient Greeks practiced polytheism, worshipping gods such as Zeus, Hera, and Poseidon.
- polytheism and idolatry
- thoroughly institutionalized polytheism
Maybe that's why I'm more sympathetic to polytheism than monotheism as well.
- Maybe that's why I'm more sympathetic to polytheism than monotheism as well.
- The Saints are a kind of substitute for polytheism, and we'll talk about why that and how that works.
- Because when the local elites are ruined, so is local religion, and local religion means polytheism.
- Not only is the Stoic concept of God different than that of traditional theism, it's also different of from that of the polytheism of their time.
- Then that would then there it might be a polytheism.
- Would she believe like, like nature, like, isn't what it's like, like polytheism, which is many.
- Up until polytheism was animism, who was spiritual, anonymous anonymism, everyone and everything.
Examples
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Maybe that's why I'm more sympathetic to polytheism than monotheism as well.
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But they had a sort of semi-official mystique, deriving from ancient Germanic polytheism.
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This moves us to then the Greek religion or a Greek polytheism, which is one of the religions of spirit.
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For example, in the Middle Ages, advocacy of polytheism, the worship of more than one god, was a punishable act.
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But could one really make sense of this kind of polytheism, particularly today when people of different faiths are all mixed up together in so many areas?
Academic text (2007) -
I've been an unbeliever my whole life, but I recall thinking when I was young that polytheism made more sense.
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Religion in pre Islamic Arabia was a mix of polytheism, Christianity, Judaism and Iranian religions.
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He talks about reason or absurdity, and he says, well, you know, with polytheism, they'll believe just about anything.
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Ever since religion was transformed from beliefs in magic to beliefs in polytheism and then belief in a monotheism, cultural civilization has applied religion as the principal tool for cultural control.
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Hinduism exemplifies polytheism with its multitude of gods representing different aspects of life.
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Morphology
polytheism = theism (transparent) = poly + the + ism
The word is built transparently from poly- 'many' plus theism, so its meaning is directly recoverable from the parts.
Etymology
The word polytheism comes from Greek parts poly- meaning 'many' and theos meaning 'god'. It is like theology or theist, but with 'many' gods instead of one, so it means belief in more than one god.