All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Paganism": list

جاهلية (Noun) [Arabic] the state of ignorance; ignorance of religious orthodoxy and canonical beliefs and practices, the dominance of heathen and ungodly practices, heathenism; paganism; polytheism (especially when referring to the beliefs in pre-Islamic Arabia)

شرك (Noun) [Arabic] polytheism, idolatry

شريك (Noun) [Arabic] a fellow deity, someone presumed a god other than the monotheistic God

عفريت (Noun) [Arabic] afreet, afrit, 'afrit, efreet, ifreet, ifrit; Supernatural being from Arabian folklore.

عفريت (Noun) [Arabic] demon, devil, fiend, evil spirit; Any infernal being regardless of its morals.

عفريت (Noun) [Arabic] goblin, sprite, genie, gremlin, elf; Any supernatural being in general.

غبغب (Noun) [Arabic] place, particularly a small mountain, where victims were sacrificed in paganism, sacrificial stone

قزح (Proper name) [Arabic] a god or demon of the rainstorm of the pagan Arabs, translatable as “thunder god” or “rain demon”. Related to a certain ritual of “standing” (وُقُوف (wuqūf)) performed at a hill (the hill termed جَبَل قُزَح (jabal quzaḥ), now جَبَل عَرَفَة (jabal ʕarafa, “Mount Arafat”)) east of Mecca at dawn where he was apparently believed to dwell, or perhaps the hill itself was deified.

كرة بلورية (Noun) [Arabic] crystal ball

مشرك (Noun) [Arabic] polytheist, henotheist, pagan

مشرک (Noun) [Persian] polytheist

وثن (Noun) [Arabic] idol, graven image

وثني (Noun) [Arabic] idolator

բագին (Noun) [Armenian] altar (pagan)

բագին (Noun) [Armenian] pagan shrine, pagan temple

բագին (Noun) [Old Armenian] altar (pagan or Christian)

բագին (Noun) [Old Armenian] pagan shrine, pagan temple

մեհեան (Noun) [Old Armenian] pagan temple

մեհեան (Noun) [Old Armenian] pagan altar

մեհյան (Noun) [Armenian] pagan temple

巫師 (Noun) [Chinese] wizard; magician; sorcerer; shaman

巫術 (Noun) [Japanese] shamanism

巫醫 (Noun) [Chinese] witch doctor

師公子 (Noun) [Chinese] wizard; magician; sorcerer; shaman

有角神 (Noun) [Japanese] Horned God

異教 (Noun) [Chinese] heathenism; paganism

薩滿 (Noun) [Chinese] shaman

薩滿教 (Noun) [Chinese] shamanism

魔女 (Noun) [Japanese] A witch; a sorceress.

魔女狩り (Noun) [Japanese] a witch-hunt

Йоль (Proper name) [Russian] Yule

Родноверие (Proper name) [Russian] Alternative form of роднове́рие (rodnovérije)

абыз (Noun) [Kazakh] priest, worshipper

алмэ (Noun) [Southern Yukaghir] shaman

атаа (Noun) [Mongolian] fifth heaven

бовван (Noun) [Ukrainian] idol

бог (Noun) [Russian] God

болван (Noun) [Russian] an idol

бөө (Noun) [Mongolian] male shaman

влъхвъ (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] a priest

волхв (Noun) [Russian] a priest; a high priest.

волхв (Noun) [Ukrainian] priest

гѫсли (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] stringed instrument

долбославие (Noun) [Russian] Slavic neopaganism.

друид (Noun) [Russian] druid

дрѣво (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] object of worship

дѫбъ (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] object of worship

дүнгэр (Noun) [Mongolian] shaman's drum

жрец (Noun) [Macedonian] heathen priest, pagan priest

жрец (Noun) [Russian] heathen priest, pagan priest

жрец (Noun) [Serbo-Croatian] heathen priest, pagan priest

жрець (Noun) [Ukrainian] heathen priest, pagan priest

жрьтва (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] sacrifice

жрьтвьникъ (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] altar

жрьти (Verb) [Old Church Slavonic] to sacrifice

жрьць (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] priest

зүүд (Noun) [Mongolian] vision

идоложертвенное (Noun) [Russian] animal sacrifice (to idols)

идоложертвенный (Adjective) [Russian] sacrificial (to idols)

инглиизм (Proper name) [Russian] Ynglism, an esoteric neopagan sect from Russia.

кап (Noun) [Bulgarian] idol

капище (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] shrine, sanctuary, temple

капище (Noun) [Russian] pagan temple

капище (Noun) [Ukrainian] pagan temple

капь (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] idol

коловрат (Noun) [Russian] swastika or kolovrat; specifically, a neo-pagan symbol with eight legs similar to swastika

коумиръ (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] idol, graven image

красный угол (Noun) [Russian] The "red corner", a household shrine for images of Orthodox saints.

кумир (Noun) [Macedonian] idol, graven image (a statue that polytheists worship as a deity)

кумир (Noun) [Russian] idol, graven image

неоязычество (Noun) [Russian] neopaganism (reconstructions or revivals of pre-Christian religious beliefs)

нуэййт (Noun) [Kildin Sami] shaman

нуэййтвудт (Noun) [Kildin Sami] shamanism

пожрѣти (Verb) [Old Church Slavonic] to offer, sacrifice

правь (Noun) [Russian] "rightness", the universal order according to some Slavic neopagan groups.

родновер (Noun) [Russian] a Rodnover; a Slavic neopagan.

родноверие (Noun) [Russian] Slavic neopaganism.

рідновірство (Noun) [Ukrainian] Slavic neopaganism, or Rodnovery.

сквара (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] smoke (from a burnt offering)

слава роду (Interjection) [Russian] "glory to the [Slavic] race", a greeting used by Slavic neopagans and nationalists.

старовер (Noun) [Russian] Old Believer

старовер (Noun) [Russian] a follower of Russian neopaganism

тенгрианство (Noun) [Russian] Tengrism, the native religion of the Turkic and Mongol peoples.

тенгризм (Noun) [Russian] Tengrism, the native religion of the Turkic and Mongol peoples.

трѣба (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] offering, rite, sacrifice

трѣбище (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] sanctuary

трѣбище (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] temple

трѣбище (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] altar

трѣбьникъ (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] temple, shrine

тумгытум (Noun) [Chukchi] friend, comrade, fellow, companion

тумгытум (Noun) [Chukchi] spouse

тумгытум (Noun) [Chukchi] assistant spirit

удган (Noun) [Mongolian] shamaness

храм (Noun) [Russian] temple, shrine

храм (Noun) [Russian] church, cathedral (a place of Christian worship that has an altar)

храм (Noun) [Russian] shrine

црькъвище (Noun) [Old Church Slavonic] pagan temple

чур (Noun) [Russian] an idol used in native Slavic religious rites

шабаш (Noun) [Russian] Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest, Sabbath.

шабаш (Noun) [Russian] A meeting of witches, presided over by the devil, Sabbath.

шабаш (Noun) [Russian] Any merry debauched festival.

шабаш (Noun) [Russian] end of the working day, quitting time (also pronounced šabáš).

эӈэӈыԓьын (Noun) [Chukchi] shaman

язичество (Noun) [Ukrainian] heathendom, heathenism, heathenry, paganism

язичник (Noun) [Ukrainian] pagan, heathen (not adhering to an Abrahamic religion)

язичництво (Noun) [Ukrainian] heathendom, heathenism, heathenry, paganism

язичницький (Adjective) [Ukrainian] pagan, paganistic

языческий (Adjective) [Russian] pagan, heathen

язычество (Noun) [Russian] paganism (local religions practiced before the introduction of Christianity)

язычник (Noun) [Russian] pagan, heathen (not adhering to an Abrahamic religion)

ბაგინი (Noun) [Old Georgian] pagan shrine

პირიმზე (Noun) [Georgian] pagan God of sky and hail

𐌰𐌽𐍃𐌿𐍃 (Noun) [Gothic] god or demigod

강신무 (Noun) [Korean] a type of shaman or priest in Korean shamanism (Korea's indigenous religion) traditionally found in northern Korea, who are personally directly selected by the gods to serve as their oracles in sessions of trance possession, in contrast to hereditary priests of the south who merely inherit their position and do not have any personal contact with the divine; today the dominant stream of shamanism e…

거리 (Noun) [Korean] a component ceremony of a gut ritual

공수 (Noun) [Korean] speech uttered by a Korean shaman in a trance state, thought to be from a deity or ancestor who has possessed the shaman

긴업 (Noun) [Korean] auspicious rat snake; the household spirit of wealth, in the physical form of a rat snake

넋 (Noun) [Korean] soul; spirit

넋두리 (Noun) [Korean] a procedure in Korean shamanic funerals in which the shaman speaks with the voice of the deceased and bids farewell to the bereaved family

단골 (Noun) [Korean] the clientele of a shaman, who regularly consult the shaman for ritual purposes

단골 (Noun) [Korean] a hereditary village priest from southern Korea who officiates rituals at a fixed shrine

대령 (Noun) [Korean] deity, divinity

대한국 (Proper name) [Korean] China

도사 (Noun) [Korean] male shaman; male priest of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country

도사 (Noun) [Korean] An honorific title for various deities in Korean folk religion

돌하르방 (Noun) [Jeju] a stone statue used to protect villages in Jeju Island

돌하르방 (Noun) [Korean] a stone statue used to protect villages in Jeju Island

마달 (Noun) [Korean] ritual songs and invocations memorized by shamans

만신 (Noun) [Korean] female trance possession shaman; priestess of historically northern traditions of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country

말미 (Noun) [Korean] the ritual narration of the tale of Princess Bari

맞이 (Noun) [Korean] Short for 맞이굿 (majigut, “welcoming ritual for the gods”).

무 (Noun) [Korean] shamanism; in particular, Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of Korea

무 (Noun) [Korean] shaman; priest of Korean shamanism

무 (Syllable) [Korean] More information(eumhun reading: 없을 무 (eopseul mu)) (MC reading: 無 (MC mju))(MC reading: 无 (MC mju|mu))(eumhun reading: 굳셀 무 (gutsel mu)) (MC reading: 武 (MC mjuX))(eumhun reading: 춤출 무 (chumchul mu)) (MC reading: 舞 (MC mjuX))(eumhun reading: 무역할 무 (muyeokhal mu)) (MC reading: 貿 (MC muwH))(eumhun reading: 힘쓸 무 (himsseul mu)) (MC reading: 務 (MC mjuH))(eumhun reading: 무성할 무 (museonghal mu)) (MC readi…

무녀 (Noun) [Korean] shamaness, female shaman; female priestess of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country

무당 (Noun) [Korean] shaman; priest of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country

무당 (Noun) [Korean] female shaman

무속인 (Noun) [Korean] shaman; priest of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country

무악 (Noun) [Korean] Korean shamanic music

무지내 (Noun) [Korean] knowledgeable shaman/indigenous priest

박수 (Noun) [Korean] male shaman; male priest of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country

방 (Suffix) [Korean] Attached to deities and rituals to denote a shaman deemed particularly skilled at holding said ritual.

법사 (Noun) [Korean] any male shaman

보살 (Noun) [Korean] shamaness; priestess of Korean shamanism, the indigenous religion of the country

불도 (Noun) [Jeju] a mountain deity

산신 (Noun) [Korean] Sansin (a mountain deity in Korean folk belief traditionally depicted as an old man with a tiger)

삼신 (Noun) [Korean] [~할머니] the usually female deity of childbirth, often depicted as a crone

서낭신 (Noun) [Korean] The patron deity of a village in Korean shamanism.

선무당 (Noun) [Korean] an inexperienced novice priest or shaman

세습무 (Noun) [Korean] a type of village priest in Korean shamanism (Korea's indigenous religion) traditionally found in southern Korea, who inherit their position within priestly lineages and do not have any personal contact with the divine, in contrast to trance-possession shamans of the north who are personally, directly selected by the gods to serve as their oracles; today mostly displaced by the latter even in Sout…

세존 (Proper name) [Korean] an indigenous agricultural deity often associated with the Buddha

손님네 (Proper name) [Korean] the deities of epidemic (historically smallpox in particular), euphemistically referred to as "the guest folk"

승방 (Noun) [Korean] dormitories in Buddhist monasteries

승방 (Noun) [Korean] a priestess of Korean folk religion from the southern coastline of the peninsula

승방 (Noun) [Korean] Buddhist monastery

시왕맞이 (Noun) [Jeju] a ritual performed in honor of the ten kings of the underworld.

신법 (Noun) [Korean] ritual regulations abided by Korean shamans

신부모 (Noun) [Korean] a senior priest who mentors a novice, guiding them into their new vocation

신자식 (Noun) [Korean] a novice priest who is being mentored by a senior one

심방 (Noun) [Korean] initiated priest of the folk religion of Jeju Island

애동제자 (Noun) [Korean] a novice priest or shaman, who has just been initiated and is still being educated

업 (Noun) [Korean] [~신(神)] A household spirit of wealth, often thought to appear in the form of various wild animals.

접신 (Noun) [Korean] entering a state of trance possession; entering a state of communion with the divine world

조왕 (Noun) [Korean] kitchen god

천지신명 (Noun) [Korean] all the gods

큰굿 (Noun) [Korean] a large-scale shamanic ritual

큰굿 (Noun) [Korean] a large-scale shamanic ritual; in particular, a fourteen-day shamanic ritual regularly held in Jeju Island, which also functions as a priestly initiation rite

큰무당 (Noun) [Korean] a great, accomplished priest or shaman

풀이 (Noun) [Korean] shamanic narrative recounting the origin myth of a divinity

ウィッカ (Proper name) [Japanese] Wicca (religion)

ตายทั้งกลม (Verb) [Thai] to die together with the child or children in her womb.

ผี (Noun) [Thai] (classifier ตน) deity; god.

ภูต (Noun) [Thai] ghost.

โลก (Noun) [Thai] sphere; globe

ܚܢܦܐ (Noun) [Classical Syriac] gentile, heathen, pagan

ܚܢܦܬܐ (Noun) [Classical Syriac] gentile, heathen, pagan

ᠰᠠᠮᠠᠨ (Noun) [Manchu] shaman

⛤ (Symbol) [Translingual] The pentacle, a religious symbol in Wicca

𐰸𐰆𐱃 (Noun) [Old Turkic] the favour of heaven

𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃 (Noun) [Old Turkic] heaven

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