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| - Neopaganism (sometimes Neo-Paganism) describes a heterogeneous group of new religious movements which attempt to revive ancient, mainly pre-Christian and often pre-Judaic Indo-European religions. Neopaganist beliefs and practices are extremely diverse, some tending towards syncretic melding of once-diverse practices and beliefs, others bordering on historical reenactment of meticulously reconstructed ancient cultures.
- Neopaganism is a revival of the ancient traditions of the gods who live in Blandine's Etherial realm of Dream. However, there are a great number of these who have recently been pushing for the Goddess, a nameless being who is said to be God's consort. However, nobody quite knows which one she is. There are whispers of Danu being the Goddess in question, but also Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna and Sekhmet have all been named as potentials (and none of them says they are anything other than the goddess, thus a great deal of the confusion).
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| - Neopaganism (sometimes Neo-Paganism) describes a heterogeneous group of new religious movements which attempt to revive ancient, mainly pre-Christian and often pre-Judaic Indo-European religions. Neopaganist beliefs and practices are extremely diverse, some tending towards syncretic melding of once-diverse practices and beliefs, others bordering on historical reenactment of meticulously reconstructed ancient cultures. In the USA, Wicca is the largest Neopagan movement, and while itself heterogeneous, many adherents share a body of common precepts, including a reverence for nature or active ecology, Goddess and/or Horned God veneration, use of ancient mythologies, the belief in "magick," and often the belief in reincarnation. Since the term Pagan was coined from a Christian viewpoint, summarizing non-Abrahamic religions, Neopaganism may be defined as "post-Christian" new religious movements (or, in the recent case of Judeo-Paganism, "post-Judaistic"), and is pronouncedly a modern phenomenon with its roots in early 19th century Romanticism. Polytheistic or animistic traditions that survived into modern times relatively untouched by Christianity and Islam, like Shinto or Hinduism are not considered Neopagan. In some cases, notably in Icelandic Asatru, the revivalist or reconstructionist movements may blend with surviving strains of pre-Christianization folklore. Other Neopagans stress their connections with older forms of Paganism in terms of an alleged "underground" continuity, but such claims are largely discredited.
- Neopaganism is a revival of the ancient traditions of the gods who live in Blandine's Etherial realm of Dream. However, there are a great number of these who have recently been pushing for the Goddess, a nameless being who is said to be God's consort. However, nobody quite knows which one she is. There are whispers of Danu being the Goddess in question, but also Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna and Sekhmet have all been named as potentials (and none of them says they are anything other than the goddess, thus a great deal of the confusion). Blandine has been keeping a watchful eye on the Essence, which seems to waver somewhat between Heaven and Hell. She has sponsored just a few attempts to increase the Heavenly and decrease the Infernal, but the humans who practice this path seem to not really understand or even necessarily care about the destination of the essence, being drunk with the power of Song when the rare occasion happens that one works. The rest of the time, it's just ordinary Manifestation.
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