The Vainakh peoples of the North Caucasus (Chechens and Ingush) were Islamised comparatively late, during the early modern period, and Amjad Jaimoukha...

kingdom) Vainakh religion (Nakhs of the Caucasus) Indigenous Australian Māori religion (Māori people) Modekngei (Palauan people) Fijian ancient religion Kanak...

the legendary figure Gha/Galga or to the God of Sun/Sky Gal [ru] in Vainakh religion are also found. A number of scholars (e.g. Anatoly Genko [ru], Yunus...

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including closely related minor or historical groups. "Nakh peoples" and "Vainakh peoples" are two terms that were coined by Soviet ethnographers such as...

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies...

Kipling's Just So story "The Butterfly that Stamped". In the pre-Islamic Vainakh religion of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan the hoopoe was sacred to the goddess...

Anthropomorphic (humanoid) gods (Mezytha, Tlepsh, Thagaledj, etc.). Vainakh religion Germanic Neopaganism Baltic Neopaganism Ossetian Neopaganism Uralic...

Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic...

century, and even then was not highly important, with the indigenous Vainakh religion still holding strong. It was only at the point of the threat of Russian...

state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state. A state with an official religion (also...

The relationship between religion and science involves discussions that interconnect the study of the natural world, history, philosophy, and theology...

more frequently in cultures based in polytheism, animism, or shamanism. Religion and magic became conceptually separated in the West where the distinction...

Canaanite religion was a group of ancient Semitic religions practiced by the Canaanites living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze Age...

Prehistoric religion is the religious practice of prehistoric cultures. Prehistory, the period before written records, makes up the bulk of human experience;...

The Punic religion, Carthaginian religion, or Western Phoenician religion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety...

his works, Rybakov maintained that Perun could not be borrowed by the Vainakhs, since the supreme god of the Slavs was Rod, and Perun was introduced only...

Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe. Because there are no extant native...

Hawaiian religion refers to the indigenous religious beliefs and practices of native Hawaiians, also known as the kapu system. Hawaiian religion is based...

Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia included indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, and Zoroastrianism...

in the form of both popular public religion and cult practices. The application of the modern concept of "religion" to ancient cultures has been questioned...

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The concept of Hellenistic religion as the late form of Ancient Greek religion covers any of the various systems of beliefs and practices of the people...

like wolves". Amjad Jaimoukha notes in his book The Chechens that sadly, "Vainakh history is perhaps the most poorly studied of the peoples of the North...

Slavic paganism, Slavic mythology, or Slavic religion is the religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which...

of religion as a term for the belief system of many Indigenous peoples in contrast to the relatively more recent development of organized religions. Animism...

Babylonian religion is the religious practice of Babylonia. Babylonia's mythology was largely influenced by its Sumerian counterparts and was written on...

entered the area and brought with them their Proto-Indo-European religion. This religion, including elements from the religious past of the region, evolved...

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returned). Orphism has been described as a reform of the earlier Dionysian religion, involving a re-interpretation or re-reading of the myth of Dionysus and...