Talk:Caďinorian paganism

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Most "pagan" religions don't have a holy book? Does it mean here or on Almea? Furius 05:11, 16 November 2007 (PST)

I thought of Earth, neither Roman, Germanic, Arabian nor Aztec paganism did have a holy book (unless you consider the Germanic sagas scripture). Stilgar 05:38, 16 November 2007 (PST)

A "Holy Book" doesn't mean "Book of religious significance with a defined text" , especially in Almea, where the Count of Years should be an example of an evolving text. Japanese shintoism (which is, really, a form of paganism, "religion of the peasants") has two holy books, the Kojiki (the accounts of old things) and the Nihon Shoki (Annals of Japan) which are mythologized history.

Also, paganism is not one religion, but what we would call the "local religion" when no other name is known. Paganism is used in Europe to contrast with Christianity, but even though we can link most paganisms of Europe, there are differences (if there wasn't any, we wouldn't be speaking of celtic, germanic, or roman paganisms). If European paganism doesn't have holy scriptures, so it is, but the Jews from the beginning had one.

If we don't have names for all those paganisms, it may be because they did not need a name at all. In a ethnic religion, you don't need to distinguish you're ethnicity and your religion (the best example is Judaism). Shintoism's name is actually a coinage to contrast with Buddhism in Japan. In Europe, since Chirstianity "won", the local religions were never given names, at least that survived into present. --Yiuel 09:43, 16 November 2007 (PST)