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
Many Bedouin and other seminomadic Arabs practiced polytheism, the worship of many gods and goddesses who were often considered patrons of certain tribes or residents of certain locales.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Moses' motive, Freud hypothesized, was to preserve a sect of the ancient Egyptian religion which rejected polytheism and only worshipped the sun god, Aten.
From Salon • Oct. 29, 2022
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
We have not invented so much as a form, or variety, of polytheism.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
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Ancient Egypt - Introductory
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Power Suffix: -ism
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