paganized
Converted to polytheism
Paganized describes something that has been given pagan characteristics or converted to pagan beliefs and practices.
Christian missionaries worried that local customs had paganized the faith, blending it with pre-Christian rituals.
The term often carries disapproval, suggesting corruption of religious purity: Critics claimed the holiday had become paganized beyond recognition.
All gods of a religion
- deitiesWorshipped supernatural beings
- godsSupernatural beings worshipped
- goddessesDivine feminine beings
- idolatryVeneration of false gods
animism · shamanism · totemism · kami · spirits · polytheism · earth-centered · veneration
Converting societies to Christianity
- dechristianizationEliminating religious presence systematically
- reversionReturn to former state
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
- backslidingReverting to former sins
missionary · proselytism · secularization · syncretism · assimilation · recidivism · Islamization · reconversion
Before the faith began
- heathenIrreligious nonbeliever
- classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome
- HellenisticOf post-Alexander Greek civilization
- RomanOf ancient Italy's capital
Gaulish · Celtic · Viking · Norse · Germanic · Saxon · antiquity · barbarian
Formal event marking occasions
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- solsticeDay of maximum tilt
- equinoxSun crosses celestial midline
- harvestGathering mature crops
festival · altar · incantation · divination · offering · invocation · bonfire · maypole
Traditional untrue narratives
- legendsTraditional stories or icons
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- sagasExtended heroic narratives
- epicsLong heroic narratives
heroes · titans · nymphs · faeries · tricksters · supernatural · archetypes · cosmology
pantheon
All gods of a religion
- deitiesWorshipped supernatural beings
- godsSupernatural beings worshipped
- goddessesDivine feminine beings
idolatry · animism · shamanism · totemism · kami · spirits · polytheism · earth-centered · veneration · devotion
Christianization
Converting societies to Christianity
- dechristianizationEliminating religious presence systematically
- reversionReturn to former state
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
backsliding · missionary · proselytism · secularization · syncretism · assimilation · recidivism · Islamization · reconversion · lapsed
pre-Christian
Before the faith began
- heathenIrreligious nonbeliever
- classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome
- HellenisticOf post-Alexander Greek civilization
Roman · Gaulish · Celtic · Viking · Norse · Germanic · Saxon · antiquity · barbarian · temple
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
harvest · festival · altar · incantation · divination · offering · invocation · bonfire · maypole · Beltane
myths
Traditional untrue narratives
- legendsTraditional stories or icons
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- sagasExtended heroic narratives
epics · heroes · titans · nymphs · faeries · tricksters · supernatural · archetypes · cosmology · underworld
paganizedChristianized
Made religiously Christian
converted · evangelized · baptized · proselytized · churched
paganizedsanctified
Made sacred through blessing
consecrated · hallowed · blessed · sacralized · canonized