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Were there any tenets of faith of polytheism?

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Were there any tenets of faith of polytheism?

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Polytheistic religions, such as the Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Celtic, and Nordic religions of ancient Europe, the Aztec, Incan, and Mayan religions of the ancient Americas, and ancient and modern-day Hinduism all had “tenets” of faith (this is also true of cultural Buddhism, which although technically nontheistic does include a pantheon of spiritual beings, including gods, that need to be interacted with, according to custom). Polytheistic religion tends to be highly structured and ritualistic. Daily life and its ordinary tasks as well as the developmental stages of an individual’s life are marked by religious ritual. The reasoning is that the deities are energies that are closely interconnected with the workings of the world and must be interacted with through a special language (symbols and religious ritual) so that the the order of the universe may be maintained and human communities may prosper. That’s it in a nutshell. To describe what the tenets of every polytheistic system is is wa

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Each pantheon certainly has tenets of their faith. The problem is the assumption that polytheism can be defined as a specific religion. You certainly can’t say that all monotheisms have the same tenets. Islam and Christianity obviously don’t. And putting it in the past tense assumes that there isn’t active polytheism now when there is. Hinduism has been around longer than any currently practiced monotheism.

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