“THE BIG BOUNCE”
*a return to ‘polytheism’*
(and so it goes…)
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(from greek πολυθεϊσμός / polytheismos)
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(“polytheism” is the worship of or belief in multiple ‘deities’, which are usually assembled into a pantheon of ‘gods’ + ‘goddesses’, along with their own ‘religions’ + ‘rituals’)
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(in most ‘religions’ which accept ‘polytheism’, the different ‘gods’ + ‘goddesses’ are representations of ‘forces of nature’ or ‘ancestral principles’)
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(‘polytheistic beliefs’ can be viewed either as… )
*’autonomous’*
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(‘aspects’ (or ’emanations’) of a…)
[‘creator god’ / ‘transcendental absolute principle’]
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aka ‘monistic theologies’)
(which manifests immanently in ‘nature’)
(aka ‘panentheistic’ + ‘pantheistic’ theologies))
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(“polytheism” is a type of “theism”)
(within ‘theism’, it contrasts with ‘monotheism’, the belief in a singular ‘god’, in most cases ‘transcendent’)
(‘polytheists’ do not always worship all the ‘gods’ equally, but they can be ‘henotheists’, specializing in the ‘worship’ of 1 particular ‘deity’)
(other ‘polytheists’ can be ‘kathenotheists’, worshiping different ‘deities’ at different ‘times’)
(‘polytheism’ was the typical form of ‘religion’ during the ‘bronze age’ and ‘iron age’ up to the ‘axial age’ and the development of ‘abrahamic religions’, the latter of which enforced ‘strict monotheism’)
(it is well documented in historical religions of ‘classical antiquity’, especially ‘ancient greek religion’ and ‘ancient roman religion’, and after the decline of ‘greco-roman polytheism’ in tribal religions such as ‘germanic paganism’ or ‘slavic paganism’)
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(important ‘polytheistic religions’ practiced today include…)
‘chinese traditional religion’
‘hinduism’
‘japanese shinto’
(and various ‘neo-pagan faiths’)
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