pagan

Let's start with a point of divergence. We will say that either the Augustine mission sent to preach amongst the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms by Pope Gregory The Great either fails miserably within a few short years, or is never called at all. Instead the Anglo-Saxons remain largely pagan. Perhaps...

Some people might think it ASB for Pharaohs to rule in Egypt mucho ger than they did OTL, but, one must always remember that the Pharaonic system was in place for 3000 Years- more amount of time than there is between Cleopatra VII and us. So, my question is, what is the longest you could...

How will a fiercely polygamous Christianity really have been for many Europeans? So let's just say that there was some sect of Christianity before and after the Roman empire converted to Christianity and this sect was fiercely polygamous meaning the males practicing it typically take more than...

I have a challenge for you that may require a somewhat liberal approach to butterflies. The main focus in this one is Italy during the Migration Period but in a world where Christianity (and consequently Islam) never took hold. Let’s imagine that Christianity rises in the first-century as yet...

Some time ago, I remember reading a tentative script about an amateur Hungarian movie taking place around the year 1000 AD (when Hungary was Christianized), but there was still a lot of infighting in the country about who gets to rule it. The screenplay actually had the title "Dances with Deer"...

Tabacalera Muerte Preface This TL explores the scenario of the Spanish Tabacco Monopoly failing due to the Pagans surviving and thriving, this is another version of my TL the Silent Revolt but more focused on the area I specified. This is basically another version of the Silent Revolt and...

Could the mythic-literary epic Ovid's Metamorphoses have become a codified holy book of a religion? In general, what texts could most realistically form the canon for a "reformed" Greco-Roman pagan religion?

Let's address the elephant in the room first. Suppose that for whichever reason you prefer the Roman empire never Christianizes. Maybe the persecutions are harsher, the religion itself isn't as evangelical or at least is more elitist, so Christianity just remains a small Jewish offshoot in the...

Lipka Tatars are a very interesting historical ethnic group. First made up of pagan Tatars fleeing Islamization in late Middle Ages, then subsumed by Muslim Tatars, the Lipka Tatars settled in what is now Belarus, Poland and Lithuania. Though for a long time they served as a military cast and...

Point of Divergence ... Before the arrival of Saint Patrick in Ireland (the exact time is not recorded, but most scholars agree it was during the second half of the 5th century), Ireland was a mostly pagan nation with its roots in Druid worship. Many legends are associated with Patrick during...

Hello this is my first alternative history so sorry for poor quality the year is 467.Libius Severus just died of natural causes,and a new emperor just came into power and his name is Procopius Anthemius Augustus.Proclaimed emperor of the western roman empire just 12 miles from Rome he trained...