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
The peninsula was home to those practicing Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrian, and polytheism.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
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
A tragicomedy about polytheism starring petty gods who complain like tired parents annoyed by their noisy children.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2014
The ancient Babylonian psalms clearly reveal that the highest minds were moving out of polytheism to a monotheistic identification of various deities as diverse phases of one underlying essence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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