13,603
edits
Religion in Great Levantia: Difference between revisions
m
no edit summary
m (Text replacement - "Istroyan" to "Istroyan people") |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
'''Religion in Great Levantia''' includes the ancestral ethnic religion of [[Great Levantia]] that the ancient Levantines used to define themselves as a people, as well as the religious practices of peoples brought under Levantine rule, in so far as they became widely followed in wider [[Levantia]]. The Levantines thought of themselves as highly religious, and attributed their success as a world power to their collective piety ''(pietas)'' in maintaining good relations with the divine. | '''Religion in Great Levantia''' includes the ancestral ethnic religion of [[Great Levantia]] that the ancient Levantines used to define themselves as a people, as well as the religious practices of peoples brought under Levantine rule, in so far as they became widely followed in wider [[Levantia]]. The Levantines thought of themselves as highly religious, and attributed their success as a world power to their collective piety ''(pietas)'' in maintaining good relations with the divine. | ||
While early [[Latinic people|Latinic]] settlers from [[Adonerum]] worshiped the typical pantheon of the [[Latinic people|Latinic]] and [[Istroyan people]] civilizations, by the 400s BC the Levantines had developed their own religion. The so-called "''Cult of the Stategod''" was a {{wp|monolatristic}} religion worshiping ''Levantia Magna'', "Great Levantia", who was both a male deity coterminous with the state and a {{wp|personification}} of the Levantine society. With the introduction of {{wp|Christianity}} in the first century and {{wp|mystery cults}} from [[Sarpedon]] in the second century, the Cult of the Stategod entered a period of decline. While the mystery cults were popular among members of high society in the period between 175 and 250, the inexorable march of Christianity lead to it becoming the religion of the majority of people in [[Great Levantia]], probably between 269 and 279. In 307, Christianity became legal upon [[Amadeus Agrippa]]'s seizure of power, and in 314 he deposed the last {{wp|Pontifex Maximus}} and transferred the title to the [[Pope|Bishop of Urceopolis]], and for the remainder of Great Levantia's history it was a {{wp|Christianity|Christian}} state. | While early [[Latinic people|Latinic]] settlers from [[Adonerum]] worshiped the typical pantheon of the [[Latinic people|Latinic]] and [[Istroyan people|Istroyan]] civilizations, by the 400s BC the Levantines had developed their own religion. The so-called "''Cult of the Stategod''" was a {{wp|monolatristic}} religion worshiping ''Levantia Magna'', "Great Levantia", who was both a male deity coterminous with the state and a {{wp|personification}} of the Levantine society. With the introduction of {{wp|Christianity}} in the first century and {{wp|mystery cults}} from [[Sarpedon]] in the second century, the Cult of the Stategod entered a period of decline. While the mystery cults were popular among members of high society in the period between 175 and 250, the inexorable march of Christianity lead to it becoming the religion of the majority of people in [[Great Levantia]], probably between 269 and 279. In 307, Christianity became legal upon [[Amadeus Agrippa]]'s seizure of power, and in 314 he deposed the last {{wp|Pontifex Maximus}} and transferred the title to the [[Pope|Bishop of Urceopolis]], and for the remainder of Great Levantia's history it was a {{wp|Christianity|Christian}} state. | ||
==Early religious traditions== | ==Early religious traditions== | ||