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pagan
/ˈpeɪɡən/
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What does pagan mean?
adjective
- Relating to, characteristic of religions that differ from main world religions.
noun
- A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion.
- An outlaw biker who is a member of the Pagans MC.
More meanings (9)
noun
- Alternative form of paigon
- (derogatory) An uncivilized or unsocialized person.
- (derogatory) An unruly, badly educated child.
proper noun
- A male given name from Latin.
- A female given name.
- A surname.
- (dated) The city of Bagan, Myanmar.
- (historical) The 9th- to 13th-century Burmese kingdom which had its capital at this city.
adjective
- (derogatory) Savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpeɪɡən/
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Thus it is into the midst of this germinating mass that we must imagine the various pagan cults, like fertilizing streams, descending.
When writing this passage, Nietzsche was obviously thinking of the accusations which were levelled at the early Christians by their pagan contemporaries.
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This theory, like so many others which the Church cherished as peculiarly its own, had really been inherited from the old pagan civilizations.
Faber in his Pagan Idolatry says that all the gods of the ancients "melt insensibly into one, they are all equally the sun."
It is quite possible that some of the old Pagan oracles were simply the deceptions of priests by means of ventriloquism.