(Far from complete) List of reconstructionist polytheistic pagan religions

I reblog this because i want to add a few recon and / or etnic religions. 

Hope all links work.

Polytheistic reconstructionism (Reconstructionism) is an approach to Neopaganism first emerging in the late 1960s to early 1970s, and gathering momentum in the 1990s to 2000s. Reconstructionism attempts to re-establish historical polytheistic religions in the modern world, in contrast with syncreticmovements like Wicca, and “channeled” movements like Germanic mysticismor Theosophy.

Many practitioners of folk religions live outside of the original cultures and territories from which those historical religions arose, and reconstructonists consequently face the problem of understanding, and then implementing, the worldview of pre-modern rural societies in a modern, possibly urban environment.

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1. There is no attempt to recreate a combined pan-European paganism.
2. Researchers attempt to stay within research guidelines developed over the course of the past century for handling documentation generated in the time periods that they are studying.
3. A multi-disciplinary approach is utilized capitalizing on results from various fields as historical literary research, anthropology, religious history, political history, archeology, forensic anthropology, historical sociology, etc. with an overt attempt to avoid pseudo-sciences.
4. There are serious attempts to recreate culture, politics, science and art of the period in order to better understand the environment within which the religious beliefs were practiced

Celtic shrine

Asatru – Norse  (Please keep in mind that some practices of Asatru differ between Scandinavia and America, partly since the custom never really left here butb stayed in traditions, folklore, placenames and so on. The actual FAITH is the same though).

http://www.asatru.ca/?page_id=3

Hellenismos – Greek

http://hellenismos.us/b/

Religio Romana – Roman

http://www.novaroma.org/religio_romana/

Anglo – Saxon Heathenry – Anglo – Saxon

http://www.englatheod.org/anglosaxon.htm

Celtic Revivalism – Celtic

http://redbranchsociety.wikidot.com/celtic-revivalism

Natib Qadish – Caanaanite

http://canaanitepath.com/introduction.htm

Romuva – Lithuanian

http://www.romuva.lt/en.html

Finnish Paganism – Finland

http://www.taivaannaula.org/finnish_paganism.php

Estonian Paganism – Estonia

http://mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=162063

Kemeticism – Egyptian

http://www.inkemetic.org/Library/kemeticism.htm

Slavic Paganism

http://www.circe-argent.com/slavic_paganism.htm

 Chimariy Yüla ( Mari Traditional Religion- Finnic, Russia )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Traditional_Religion#Gods

Vattisen Yaly ( Chuvas Religion-Turcic, Russia )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vattisen_Yaly

Noaidevuohta (Sami-Norway,Sweden, Finland, Russia )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_religion

Romuva

These are only a few (the biggest) reconstructive religions out there, and dont forget that using terms like “Germanic, Celtic” or “Slavic” are simplifications.

There whyere several tribes of each of these larger ethnic groups and  time and geography would mean variations. Even within what is now Sweden there where differences in cult.

The biggest reconstructive polytheistic religion last i checked was Asatru.

Hellenists

There are about a 100 000 Hellenists in Greece, a country that only recently gained religious freedom (ie it was forbidden to be a Hellenist) and a whole lot in the US

Sami Gods

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• (Horagalles/Thora Galles/Tiermes/Aijeke/Pajonn)
  The Sami god of thunder & lightning. His hammer was called Wetschera or Ajeke veccera which means grandfather’s hammer. Tiermes also has a bow called dauge which is a rainbow. Sometimes Tiermes is depicted with two hammers. One he uses to make thunder & lightning and the other he uses to withdraw thunder & lightning in order to prevent damage. Not surprisingly the Sami Tiermes is compared to the Norse Thor and Finnish Ukko. Even Thor’s wife Sif is linked to Tiermes/Horagalles’s mate Ravdna.
  
  “In Sami mythology Tiermes was the god of the sky and thunder and lightening, the rainbow, weather, oceans, lakes and over human life, health and well-being. He protected people and animals from “hurtful demons” and “evil spirits” (i.e. Trolls).” “who frequent the rocks and mountains, and like Jupiter of the Romans he sometimes destroys them with his lightning or shoot them with his bow (dauge) or dash their brains out with the hammer (Wetschera). Horagalles’s bow was the rainbow.”
• Mano, Aske or Manna - The god of the Moon.
• Atja - The god of thunder, also called Bajanolmmai, Dierpmis, Hovrengalles, Tordöm or Horagalles, which means “Thor- man”.
• Beaivi, Biejje or Biejvieh - The great Goddess of the Sun, mother of humankind.
• Bieggagallis - The god of the storms, father of human kind, consort of Beaivi.
• Bieggolman or Biegkeålmaj - God of the summer winds.
• Biegkegaellies - God of the winter winds.
• Biejjenniejte - Goddess of healing and medicine; her name means “Daughter of the Sun” or “Maiden of the Sun”, and she was especially helpful against sicknesses caused by her mother, the sun.
• Jabbmeaaakka - Goddess of death and queen of the underworld and the kingdom of death.
• Ipmeláhcchi/Ipmil/Jipmel/Ipmilbalolaš (trans. Heaven Father) - “God” ; possibly this was a late lative name of the Christian God, but it could also have been a name to include all good deities
• Juoksahkka - The protecter and guardian of children; “The woman with an arrow”.
• Lieaibolmmai - God of the hunt, the god of adult men.
• Maadteraahka - Mother of the tribe, Goddess of women and children, she who gives humans their body; women belonged to her, and boys belonged to her until they were declared men. Maadteraahka is popular among modern Sámi feminists.
• Maadteraajja - The father of the tribe, husband of Maadteraahka; while his wife gives humans their body, he gives them their soul; and thus, they are born.
• Mubpienålmaj - “The evil one”; possibly the Christian god of evil, but also a name that included all the evil deities.
• Oksaahka - The former of the fetus; she shaped the fietus in the mother’s womb and gave humans their gender. She was the sister of Juoksahka.
• Raedie, Väraldarade or Waralden Olmai - The main god, the great creator of the world; he was, however, passive, some say even sleeping, and not very included in active religion.
• Raedieahkka - Wife of Raedie.
• Rana Niejta - Daughter of Raedie. “Rana” was a popular name of Sámi girls.
• Raediengiedte - Son of Raedie.
• Ruohtta/Rohttu - The god of sicknesses and therefore also a death-god. He was depicted riding on a horse.
• Saaraahka - The Goddess of fertility, menstruation, love, sexuality, pregnancy and childbirth. Saaraahka was the most important female god; she is sometimes sister of Juoksahka and Oksaahka, sometimes they are a trinity of the same Goddess.
• Stallon/Stalu/Stalo - The feared giant of the woods.
• Tjaetsieålmaj - The men of water.

I love it how quite a few of my Gods could very well say “Oh dont go fuckin religous on me now” as an answer to a question.

Suomenusko - Finnish Paganism (very interesting)