• The Vainakh peoples of the North Caucasus (Chechens and Ingush) were Islamised comparatively late, during the early modern period, and Amjad Jaimoukha...
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    kingdom) Vainakh religion (Nakhs of the Caucasus) Indigenous Australian Māori religion (Māori people) Modekngei (Palauan people) Fijian ancient religion Kanak...
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    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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  • Maroon religion Lima religion Moche religion Sámi shamanism Slavic paganism Tiwanaku religion Tocharian religion Vainakh religion Wari religion Major religious...
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    Nakh peoples (redirect from Vainakhs)
    including closely related minor or historical groups. "Nakh peoples" and "Vainakh peoples" are two terms that were coined by Soviet ethnographers such as...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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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    Mari native religion Mordvin native religion Udmurt Vos Abkhaz neopaganism Council of Priests of Abkhazia (2012) Adyghe Habze Vainakh religion Albanian folk...
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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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  • Animism (redirect from Animistic religion)
    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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    Ulus Simsim fl. 1395–1470 Medieval map of Simsim Religion Sunni Islam Vainakh religion • fl. 1395–1396 Gayur-khan Today part of Russia...
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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...
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  • 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...
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