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2 unusual facts about Polytheistic reconstructionism


Polytheistic reconstructionism

According to Linzie (2004), the reconstructionist movement originated around 1970 with early attempts to reconstruct pre-Christian religions, with Germanic neopaganism in the USA, the UK and Iceland focussing on Norse religion of the Viking Age, and reconstruction of Hellenic polytheism in Greece, and of Baltic polytheism with Romuva.

Triskelion

The triskele, usually consisting of spirals, but also the "horned triskelion", is used by some polytheistic reconstructionist and neopagan groups.


Armenian neopaganism

Armenian Neopaganism, or Hetanism (Armenian: Հեթանոսություն Hetanosutyun; a cognate word of "Heathenism"), is a Neopagan religion of reconstructionist kind, constituting an ethnic religion of the Armenians.

Shimsat Nuthar

Shimsat Nuthar is a reconstructionist religion that claims to be the national faith of the Romathi people as practiced in Ancient Kemet (Egypt) and so is sometimes called Kemetic Religion or Kemeticism.


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