Polytheism (from Greek πολυθεϊσμός, polytheismos) is the worship of or belief in multiple deities, which are usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and rituals. In most religions which accept polytheism, the different gods and goddesses are representations of forces of nature or ancestral principles, and can be viewed either as autonomous or as aspects or emanations of a creator deity or transcendental absolute principle (monistic theologies), which manifests immanently in nature (panentheistic and pantheistic theologies).[1] Most of the polytheistic deities of ancient religions, with the notable exceptions of the Ancient Egyptian[2] and Hindu deities, were conceived as having physical bodies.
Polytheism is a type of theism. Within theism, it contrasts with monotheism, the belief in a singular God, in most cases transcendent. Polytheists do not always worship all the gods equally, but they can be henotheists, specializing in the worship of one particular deity. Other polytheists can be kathenotheists, worshiping different deities at different times.
Polytheism was the typical form of religion during the Bronze Age and Iron Age up to the Axial Age and the development of Abrahamic religions, the latter of which enforced strict monotheism. It is well documented in historical religions of Classical antiquity, especially ancient Greek religion and ancient Roman religion, and after the decline of Greco-Roman polytheism in tribal religions such as Germanic paganism or Slavic paganism.
Important polytheistic religions practiced today include Chinese traditional religion, Hinduism, Japanese Shinto, Santeria, and various neopagan faiths.
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is found to have solidified in a new shape. And the magic of fire has yet more to offer. ... The use of fire thus makes possible two significant new steps in the development of metallurgy
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Two or more dependable sources that record the same event using the same facts is needed to establish historical accuracy.
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Artifacts can be open to interpretation because historians need to figure out what they are & what they mean about life in the time they were made.
Although primary sources are helpful, they are not indisputable because one person cannot completely confirm an event. Consider what would happen if future historians only used a conspiracy theorist's journal to figure out what life in our current time is like.
Religious documents often record fictional events.
<u>Two or more dependable sources is the right answer because more resources mean that something is more likely to be true.</u>
Well, it can't be the Cuban missile crisis, that was before he was president, he was the vicepresident.
the bombing of Japan happened about 20 years earlier.
He did sign the Civil Rights act into Federal Law, and that was very significant.
