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...

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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...

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

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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...