polytheism
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The opera ends with Akhnaten’s son, presumably Tutankhamun, restoring polytheism, and then, once the staging jumps millennia into the future, it’s rediscovered by modern-day tourists.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
This new religious culture resulted in the neglect of traditional Roman polytheism, and the empire’s eastward shift came at the expense of the western empire.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Before Constantine’s conversion, Christianity expanded through missionary work, which succeeded in founding congregations across the Empire but did not seriously disrupt polytheism or the Empire’s religious diversity.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
A tragicomedy about polytheism starring petty gods who complain like tired parents annoyed by their noisy children.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2014
By this means an enlightened monotheism and the grossest polytheism could, and did, exist side by side, as well as clever and reasonable cosmologies along with the strangest and wildest legends.
From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge
Vocabulary lists containing polytheism
Ancient Egypt - Introductory
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Power Suffix: -ism
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