paganism

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Roman encyclopedia –Paganism 11/12/07 12 : 19 PM

This is paganism.

Paganism is a religion that the early Romans believed in. The early Romans believed that the gods and goddesses all had power overt their daily life. Later on, during the Roman Empire, the Romans started to believe in Greek mythology and Greek gods, but instead of using their original Greek names the Romans changed the Greek names to roman names. They built amazingly beautiful temples in their gods honor.

Since religion was so important in those days, the Romans decided to make the priest govern Rome. They did this act because they believed that god was wisdom, and the closest thing to god is a priest. So since they believed that the priest was wise, the Romans decided to make the priests govern.

Approximately during the year 100 A.D, the Romans lost interest in their religion and decided to believe and became attracted to the middle east’s religion. The Romans also soon became in touch with Greek mythology at about 700 B.C. After that. A man named Constantine, introduced the Romans to Christianity. After using the middle east’s religions and Greek mythology, they also stole some Egyptian religion and religions from asia minor.

Paganism disappeared when Constantine introduced the naïve Romans into Christianity. But from the start not many of the roman people were paganism. The term “pagan” was derived from the latin word “paganus” meaning country dweller in latin language.

The pagans were polytheistic; meaning that the believed in a whole lot of gods. There were around 350 different types of roman/Greek/Egyptian /Asia Minorian gods. Every single one of those gods and goddesses had at least one power over one specific natural cause.

So, basically the pagans were Romans whole believed in a lot of different religions and information before the introduction of Constantine. But that is a whole different story!

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