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Sweyn Forkbeard (died 1014), pagan king of Denmark; Swithhelm, pagan king of Essex but converted to Christianity in 662; Tytila (died c. 616), semi-historical pagan king of East Anglia; Veleda, priestess and prophetess of the Bructeri tribe; Waluburg, Semnonian seeress in the service of the governor of Roman Egypt; Wehha, king of the East Angles
Druid gathering at Stonehenge Ukrainian temple of the RUNVira in Spring Glen, New York. Modern paganism, also known as "contemporary" or "neopagan", encompasses a wide range of religious groups and individuals.
Neo-druids include: . Berthou, Gwilherm, Breton poet; Bonewits, Isaac, author and scholar of several Druid and neopagan related books and articles; Carr-Gomm, Philip, former chosen chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids
A marble statue of Jupiter, king of the Roman gods. Paganism (from classical Latin pāgānus "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, [1] or ethnic religions other than Judaism.
List considered Charlemagne the killer of the Saxons in memory of the bloody baptism of the pagans of Northern Germany by him. List considered the entire Christian period as an era of cultural decline, oblivion of the true faith, and unnatural racial mixing, when the "Aryan" ruling caste of priest-kings was forced to hide, secretly saving their ...
People who follow animistic, pagan, polytheistic, or shamanistic faiths, including both traditional ethnic/folk religions and neopagan revivals. Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
Teixidor, Javier (2015) [1977], The Pagan God: Popular Religion in the Greco-Roman Near East, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9781400871391; Teixidor, Javier (1979), The Pantheon of Palmyra, Brill Archive, ISBN 9004059873; Trombley, Frank R. (1993), Hellenic Religion and Christianization: C. 370-529, BRILL, ISBN 9789004096240
This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from pagan religions. Paganism is a term which, from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or cultic practices or beliefs of any folk religion , and of historical and contemporary polytheistic religions in particular.