polytheist
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Any vision for a renewed polytheist empire ended with his death.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In Medina, the previously polytheist Arabs, Jewish Arabs, and Muhammad’s ummah formed an alliance for their common defense.
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
The Arabs were polytheists — they worshiped a variety of gods linked to various oases in the desert.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
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
The philosophers spoke of a dim Supreme far off from men, and even the polytheists were not unwilling to subordinate their motley crew of gods to some mysterious divinity beyond them all.
From The Arian Controversy by Gwatkin, Henry Melvill
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