heathenism
Worship of idols
Heathenism is the condition of being a heathen—holding religious beliefs outside the major world religions, especially Christianity.
The term carries the perspective of those religions, implying ignorance or barbarism: missionaries sent to convert the heathenism of distant lands.
It can also describe irreligious or uncivilized behavior generally.
Belief in multiple deities
- idolatryVeneration of false gods
- templesHoly places or head sides
- altarsSacred ceremonial tables
- priesthoodOrdained religious office
sacrifice · oracle · augury · divination · ancestors · cults · fertility · libations
Veneration of false gods
- infidelNonbeliever in another's creed
- godlessnessLack of belief
- barbarismSavage, uncivilized behavior
- superstitionBaseless belief in omens
irreligion · unchristian · unconverted · savage · primitive · heathendom · unbeliever · profane
Spirits inhabit all things
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- totemismBelief linking clans to symbols
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- fertilityCapacity for reproduction
harvest · seasons · elements · polytheism · pantheism
polytheism
Belief in multiple deities
priesthood · sacrifice · oracle · augury · divination · ancestors · cults · fertility · libations · votive
idolatry
Veneration of false gods
- infidelNonbeliever in another's creed
- godlessnessLack of belief
- barbarismSavage, uncivilized behavior
superstition · irreligion · unchristian · unconverted · savage · primitive · heathendom · unbeliever · profane · ungodly
animism
Spirits inhabit all things
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- totemismBelief linking clans to symbols
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
fertility · harvest · seasons · elements · polytheism · pantheism
sacrifice
Giving up something precious
incantation · chant · totem · amulet · festival · offering · sorcery · talisman · libation · bonfire
Odin
Chief Norse deity
Valhalla · Asgard · runes · sagas · Ragnarök · Midgard · berserker · Baldur · kindred
- impietyungodliness, unholiness, irreverence, sacrilege, blasphemy
- paganismWicca, pagan, polytheist, polytheism, pentagram
- Anglo-Saxon culturemead hall, thane, comitatus, Beowulf, shield wall
- Norse mythologyThor, Odin, Loki, Valhalla, Ragnarok
- heresyheretic, heretical, heretics, apostasy, apostate
- heresiesGnosticism, heresy, Monophysitism, Bogomilism, unorthodoxy
heathenismChristianity
Faith based on Jesus
Islam · Judaism · monotheism · Abrahamic faith · Catholicism
heathenismsalvation
Deliverance from harm
redemption · godliness · Christendom · faith · piety