ancient worship
Bygone religious practice
Ancient worship refers to religious practices, rituals, and devotion from early civilizations—the gods and ceremonies of Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, and other pre-Christian or pre-modern societies.
The phrase often carries a sense of the exotic or mysterious: The temple was built for ancient worship of forgotten deities.
It can also describe contemporary revival of such practices: Some pagans seek to reconstruct ancient worship.
- ZeusGreek sky god
- sun godDivine personification of daylight's source
- libationCeremonial drink offering
- fertility riteCeremony promoting reproduction
- creation mythOrigin narrative of existence
Isis · temple · animism · Mesopotamia · Quetzalcoatl · Amaterasu · Indus Valley · oracle bones · sacrifice · divination · afterlife · Egypt · effigy · purification · ritual dance · chanting · altar · sacred fire
ancient worshipworld religions
Major global belief systems
established churches · Scientology · Mormonism · neo-paganism · established church
ancient worshipsecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
atheism · irreligion · agnosticism · spiritual but not religious · secularism
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