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polytheist

[pah-lee-thee-ist] / ˈpɑ liˌθi ɪst /


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In Medina, the previously polytheist Arabs, Jewish Arabs, and Muhammad’s ummah formed an alliance for their common defense.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

Any vision for a renewed polytheist empire ended with his death.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

"I think I'm a polytheist, in as much as I believe in multiple divinities."

From The Guardian Jun. 27, 2014

The polytheist is not surprised the world seems capricious, illogical, anarchic.

From Time Magazine Archive

“As a Hindu, I’m a polytheist, as you well know.”

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Arabian polytheists worshipped idols and totems, physical representations of divine spirits.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

About 1.5% of the American population identifies as “other faiths,” including “Unitarians, those who identify with Native American religions, Pagans, Wiccans, New Agers, deists, Scientologists, pantheists, polytheists, Satanists and Druids, to name just a few.”

From Salon May 7, 2017

Mr. Barber, of the University of Chicago, said that the focus on Yazidis was likely because they are polytheists, with an oral tradition rather than a written scripture.

From New York Times Aug. 13, 2015

For animists and polytheists, the natural world is full of spirits.

From BBC May 3, 2013

It is clear, therefore, that Cyrus was a polytheist, who, like other polytheists in other ages, adopted the gods of the country he had conquered from motives of State policy.

From Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce




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