- Asatru
- Church of All Worlds
- Discordianism
- Druidry
- Feri
- Gwyddons
- Hellenismos
- Kemeticism
- Religio Romana
- Senistrognata
- Thelema
- Wicca
And sometimes individuals and sub-groups of the following religions self-identify as Pagan:
- Candomble
- Demonolatry
- Santeria
- Satanism (Theistic Satanists are the most likely to identify as Pagan)
- Voudon
I only know about the Wiccan religion, which my parents don't seem to like, but we'll go through all of them one at a time and we'll be guided through this together. Let's start with Asatru.
Asatru is a Norse religion that is Christian-Germanic. From my understanding, it honors a God and Goddess, but not as equals like Wicca. It says that there are Nine Worlds and two of them are of the humans and of the Gods. It seems like there are a lot of drinking rituals. Already, it doesn't seem to interest me, but the rest of you may like it. http://www.asatru.org/
Church of All Worlds seems to be a Neopagan group of all kinds of religions, but they believe in returning the world back to Gaia - mother Earth. I wasn't really into this one, but those of you who are thinking about Nature being your base this might be good for you. http://www.caw.org/
Discordianism is the religion that believes in the Goddess Eris, who is the Greco-Roman Goddess of Chaos. Discordianism is centered on the idea that both order and disorder are illusions imposed on the universe by the human nervous system, and that neither of these illusions of apparent order and disorder is any more accurate or objectively true than the other. http://www.discordian.com/
Druidry primarily promotes balance with nature and harmony and respect for all beings, including the environmental. It was originated in Britain during the 18th Century. It, like many other Pagan religions, is associated with Nature and Harmony. http://www.druidry.org/
Feri is the tradition of contemporary witchcraft (don't be afraid of the word because it really doesn't mean anything bad). It's based off of the sensual experience (including sexual mysticism). Feri witches consider themelves "Fey". They believe that much of reality is unseen, or at least has uncertain boundaries. Within the tradition there is a deep respect for the wisdom of nature, a love of beauty, and an appreciation of bardic and mantic creativity. (Mantic means relating to divination or prophecy). http://www.feritradition.org/
Gwyddons try to focus on the clarity of the mind and mainly travel the road of wisdom and they mainly try to possess inner-strength. Here is a website that should explain more about it, since I have NO clue to what it really is (http://gwyddoniad.org/).
Hellenismos is mainly Greek religion. It's making a big comeback since it died out when Christianity became a big hit. This religion is based on the Greek Gods of old (Titans, Olympians included). A website that might explain more is http://hellenismos.us/f/YaBB.pl
Kemeticism is the same as Kemetism. The word Kemet means "people of the Black Land", which means people of Egypt. This interests me like many other people, because Egyptian culture is fascinating. Kemetism is based on the worship of the Egyptian Gods. Here's a website that you can look at and it will be something I will do aswell. http://www.roundtable.kemeticrecon.com/
Religio Romana really means (in Latin) "Roman Religion". This religion is based off of the Roman traditions, including the Roman Gods. Many of the Roman Gods have been ideas taken from the Greek traditions, and one could argue this all night, but there are a lot of the Roman traditions that do not follow the Greek ways. This one has also interested me and I believe there will be many of you that will agree with me. http://www.novaroma.org/religio_romana/
Senistrognata is mainly Celtic traditions for cultural Celtics or for anyone else. Many of the Celtic traditions have been unknown because every region of Celtics had their own Gods. They honor their ancestors and the Nature spirits of their regions. There used to be a website for Senistrognata, but it is currently inactive, but it is kept up for historical interest, if you want to check it out. http://www.imbas.org/
Thelema is a 20th century religion created by a British writer after he and his wife had a spiritual experience in Egypt. This isn't like Kemetism, but it shares the same interest of the ancient Egyptian Gods. I haven't really found anything that fully explains Thelema, but it is a college based religion that can be looked at. http://www.thelema.org/
Wicca is a religion that I am familiar with, it is mainly Nature based and was created in the first half of the 20th century. It is the worship of a God and a Goddess. Wiccans celebrate holidays that are called Sabbats. There are many websites out on the web that explain the view of Wicca, but here's one that explains it all and is one that I used a while ago when Wicca interested me. http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_beli.htm
Those were really the most known Pagan religions, and there are many others out there, but I felt like maybe you should know those. You don't have to pick your certain religion of Paganism from this list or ever if you don't want to, but what really interests me is Kemetism, Hellenism, and Religio Romana. If you would like to look up more information on them, you can look however you'd like!
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