Hellenismos is a religion, often called Hellenic Paganism, which is based in the ancient Greek philosophical, cultic, and mythic traditions. It is Polytheistic in nature and uses as its sources of sacred information the works of the ancient Greeks and modern scholarly research on the subject.
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Polytheism
Polytheism is a belief system that embodies the idea that there is not one all powerful God, but many Gods. The number of Gods may be debated, but that there are many is a given.
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Also known as
Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenic Reconstructionist Paganism, Hellenism
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Followers called
Hellenic polytheists, Hellenic pagans, Hellenic reconstructionists, Hellenists, Hellenistoi, or Hellenes
