pagan in English

adjective
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relating to pagans.
a pagan god
noun
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a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
It is a common belief that witches and pagans are devil worshipers, but they are not.
synonyms:heatheninfidelidolateridolatresspaynim
noun
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ruins in Burma (Myanmar), located on the Irrawaddy River southeast of Mandalay. It is the site of an ancient city that was the capital of a powerful Buddhist dynasty from the 11th to the 13th centuries.

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1. Pagan sacrifices, worshipping pagan symbols and visiting pagan temples shall no longer be allowed.

2. Those were pagan prayers!

3. The people worshipped pagan gods.

4. People everywhere were worshipping pagan gods.

5. [1] A notable strategy for Christianization was interpretatio christiana – the practice of converting native pagan practices and culture, pagan religious imagery, pagan sites and the pagan calendar to Christian uses, due to the Christian efforts at proselytism based on the Great Commission.

6. 13 That is really pagan fatalism.

7. Pagan myths often conflict with geographic facts.

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9. This too is deeply rooted in pagan worship.

10. Namely, the inevitable decline of pagan myth.

11. Why was this pagan king’s conversion so important?

12. In pagan cults there were two Kinds of sacrifices.

13. Christian churches are still full of pagan symbolism.

14. Frosty the Snowman espouses a pagan belief in magic.

15. This is the Orphic [pagan Greek] and Virgilian [pagan Roman] doctrine of Purgatory: there is not a word about it in the Gospels. . . .

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17. Certainly the pagan teachings prevailing then were “beggarly elementary things.”

18. In ancient times the Curonians, a pagan tribe, inhabited Courland.

19. A small minority of the population practise ancient Pagan religions.

20. Strikes on Pagan Island preceded a brief upkeep at Eniwetok.

21. The new religion was eager to convert the pagan world.

22. Does that not indicate a condoning of pagan teachings?

23. Welcoming Constantine in Rome, a pagan Senate declared him chief Augustus and Pontifex Maximus, that is, high priest of the pagan religion of the empire.

24. Why did Mordecai allow Esther to marry a pagan unbeliever?

25. 16 The Easter egg has both pagan and Christian origins.

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27. And while he was doing this, he praised his pagan gods.

28. Candlemas is a very old holiday with a Christian-Pagan history

29. Jews began to look at pagan ideas in a different light.

30. The word Easter derives from Eostre, the pagan goddess of spring.

31. Christmas is an adaptation of the Pagan feast of Yule.

32. This date in pagan Rome was dedicated to the Sun god . . .

33. Not even the grimmest phantoms of pagan imagination are wantonly malignant.

34. But Christians believed it an abomination to honor such a pagan god.

35. These are things that are very common in polytheistic and pagan practices.

36. Their religion was a mixture of Jewish and pagan beliefs and practices.

37. Pagan and I are happily married, with babies as well as jobs.

38. Christianization (Christian churches or the condemnation of pagan gods and practices

39. Beowulf’s synthesis of pagan and Christian elements is a reflection of a period in which the ideals of the pagan age were alleviated by the placidity of the new faith

40. The Pagan Hercules, why was he Accounted a hero? # To consider (that)

41. Constantine contributed to the fusing of “Christianity” with the pagan Roman religion.

42. Relief depicting a pagan Assyrian king wearing a cross, circa 800 B.C.E.

43. Nevertheless, devotion to any pagan symbol is clearly condemned by the Bible.

44. The Bible book of Acts clearly portrays the pagan atmosphere surrounding early Christianity.

45. Upper-class Christians were indistinguishable from their pagan fellows in their life-style.

46. With Christian times, the omens of the pagan Augurers lost their import

47. Burmese chronicles do not agree on the origins of the Pagan kingdom.

48. Apostate Israelites who adopted this pagan concept were severely condemned by God.

49. He concluded: “The immortality of the soul . . . is a pagan philosophical dogma.”

50. Why Consecrate? In many modern Pagan traditions, magical tools are Consecrated before use