Dictionary of Pagan Religions

By Wade Baskin

Assembled right here for the 1st time in a single quantity are the basic evidence in regards to the cults, rites and rituals linked to polytheistic religions that experience existed from the Stone Age to the current. the purpose of the publication is to create and protect a partial list of the pagan religions or cults that experience flourished because the sunrise of mankind and in their influence and impact during the international. This checklist contains a few of the forgotten religions and their ideologies, practices, and mythologies.


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A Sumeran goddess who shaped ‘king and lord. ’ NINURTA In Assyrian faith, he used to be the son of Enlil. He was once the warfare god. He additionally presided over storms, and was once a mum or dad of the bounds of fields. He used to be additionally a consumer of physicians. NIORD In Norse mythology he's also referred to as Njordhr. he's the god of the sea and the winds. he's additionally the consumer god of sailors. Skadhi is his consort. Niord is equivalent to the Greek god Aeolus, who additionally used to be in control of the winds and storms. NIRRITI In Hindu mythology, a goddess of demise and rot. NIRVANA In Buddhism, the extinction of the threefold fireplace of raga, dosa, and moha (passion, hatred, delusion). while this fireplace dies out, the Buddhist attains a beatific religious and freedom from the need of destiny transmigration. NIPPUR The cult middle of Enlil (‘lord of the storm’) in imperative Babylonia. From the earliest ancient occasions it was once considered as a impartial sacred urban to which various components of the rustic despatched votive choices. Afterwards, the Babylonians pointed out Marduk with Enlil. nonetheless later, the Assyrians equated Enlil with Assur and made his identify synonymous with the Canaanite Baal. lots of the Sumerian literature recognized to exist used to be chanced on at Nippur. One pill is inscribed with a fraction of a deluge fable differing from the model at Ninevah. NISABA The Mesopotamian goddess of grain. She is equated with the Greek goddess Demeter, whose features have been exact. one of the Romans Demeter used to be pointed out with the goddess Ceres. She turned the patroness of writing. NISIR In Babylonian mythology, the mountain on which Utnapishtim’s ark got here to leisure after the Flood. NITHHOGG In Norse mythology, a dragon that lives within the good Hvergelmir, in Niflheim, gnawing on the root of Yggdrasil, the good ash-tree that symbolizes the universe. NIUBU An Apo Tani priest. He techniques gods and spirits on behalf of these confronted with a private challenge. NIX In Teutonic mythology, this was once an evil water-spirit. It used to be able to assuming a half-human, half-fish shape. NJORD one of many Vanir, Norse divinities of fertility. He was once additionally worshipped as god of the north wind. See Niord. NOCCA An historical Gothic god; pointed out with Neptune. NODOSUS In Roman mythology, a country god who used to be in command of knots and joints in stalks. NORDIC TREE In Norse mythology Odin, the superb deity, achieves wisdom of the runes and of the drink of immortality by way of placing from the tree, Yggdrasil. NORITO Shinto prayers recited by way of clergymen or by means of excessive govt officers. The ritual is assumed to have magical impression. NORNS In Norse mythology, they have been 3 maidens—Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld—who constituted destiny. They have been equivalent to the classical thought of destiny, particularly, the 3 sisters known as Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. The Norns made up our minds the style of loss of life of mankind. NORSE CYCLE In Norse faith, every little thing that exists—gods, males, animals, plants—is doomed to disintegration and chaos. From this chaos the cycle of production starts back. this idea coincides with the Stoic view of the conflagration of the cosmos, by means of a brand new cycle.

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