Monotheistic Paganism

Is there anyway that instead of the Pagan religions of Europe, North Africa and Arabia being stomped out by Christianity, instead they reformed into Monotheism?

After all, every modern monotheistic religion came out of polytheism. Zoroastrianism came out of Iranian Polytheism called Ashurism, Judaism and Christianity came out of Yahwehism and Levantian Polytheism, Islam came out of Arabian Polytheism with Levantian influences ect.

Could the Pagan religions have ever reformed into say, Odinism for example in Germanic Paganism?

Also to mention, one religion already did this even without the influence of Zoroastrianism or Abrahamic beliefs. Zalmoxism formed independently out of Romanian Paganism, and was as far as we can find out, Monotheistic.
 
As Dominus Novus said, the problem with answering your question is the premise. I'm not sure a lot of these "paths" are very correct.

In a very simple summation of my issues, Iranian polytheism was never called Ashurism. (indeed, Ashurism sounds like a reference to the religious beliefs of the Assyrian people, who were not Iranian) Judaism did emerge from the earlier polytheistic beliefs of the Jews, but Christianity had more to do with the blending of Greek philosophy with profound changes in Jewish thought. Islam certainly did not emerge whole cloth out of the traditions of Arab polytheists.

Worship of Zalmoxis or Salmoxis was a sort of Dacian mystery cult, not from "Roman paganism" and is probably more accurately described as monolatrist. Which a fair number of mystery cults were, I believe.
 
As Dominus Novus said, the problem with answering your question is the premise. I'm not sure a lot of these "paths" are very correct.

In a very simple summation of my issues, Iranian polytheism was never called Ashurism. (indeed, Ashurism sounds like a reference to the religious beliefs of the Assyrian people, who were not Iranian) Judaism did emerge from the earlier polytheistic beliefs of the Jews, but Christianity had more to do with the blending of Greek philosophy with profound changes in Jewish thought. Islam certainly did not emerge whole cloth out of the traditions of Arab polytheists.

Worship of Zalmoxis or Salmoxis was a sort of Dacian mystery cult, not from "Roman paganism" and is probably more accurately described as monolatrist. Which a fair number of mystery cults were, I believe.

Yeah apologizes with the Ashurism I was far to broad there. I meant it as more of a common type of city based polytheism within that area of the world.

Same with Islam I didn't mean that Islam just came right out of Arabian polytheism it was a reaction to the many faiths in Arabia. From Polytheism, to the Monotheistic beliefs of Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Christianity.
 
Are you essentially after a Pagan (or more accurately Anti-Aniconist) form of Monotheism that carries over the physical representations of the head deities in various pantheons around much of the ancient world or something else entirely?
 
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There is even some evidence, not fully unequivocal, mind you, for the development of a cult more or less exclusively devoted to a single God, the so-called Hypsistos theos or 'Most-high God' (if you've read the Acts of the Apostles, this is probably the divinity to whom the Philippian slave-girl refers when she is following Paul and Silas around in Acts 16). Some scholars, especially Stephen Mitchell, think that this was a truly monotheistic religion developed in contact with Judaism but distinct from it, and so a true "pagan monotheism" if you will (the postulated closeness to Judaism rather undermines the "pagan" part of that definition, in my judgment, but it's an interesting idea); others, especially Nicole Belayche, see the title hypsistos as a mark of devotion and respect to a particular divinity, but not as a sign of exclusive worship, let alone that everyone was agreed on the identity of the hypsistos theos--there may have been many hypsistoi theoi, as it were. That's all quite complicated, and I doubt either is the sort of "monotheism" you have in mind, as neither one seems to have denied the validity of other cults, and indeed philosophical henotheism was often a way of rationalizing the multiplicity of traditional divinities into a coherent system.

I'm familiar with the Book of Acts, and that chapter doesn't seem to me to be evidence of what you suggest. But I do agree that henotheism is the ultimate evolution of heathenry in Europe, influenced by Neoplatonic thought (maybe with other schools--Gnostic, Pythagorian, etc.). The closest thing to monotheism would be identifying Zeus (or Odin/Wodinaz/Sol Invictus/Jupiter/whoever) as the "Monad" and all other gods as an element of him. But as far as I'm aware, didn't historic heathens influenced by neoplatonism consider Zeus only an element of the Monad/One and not that divinity himself?
 
There is even some evidence, not fully unequivocal, mind you, for the development of a cult more or less exclusively devoted to a single God, the so-called Hypsistos theos or 'Most-high God' (if you've read the Acts of the Apostles, this is probably the divinity to whom the Philippian slave-girl refers when she is following Paul and Silas around in Acts 16)
You do recall the part about her being demon possessed and them saying she was Lieing about them being messengers of Zeus? Also, pagan meant everyone who was not in the City of God. It meant people from rural areas, so would be everyone who wasn't Jewish/Christian. And keep in mind, Christianity seems to be an equal successor of Judaism as what we now call Rabbinical Judaism. Either way, we ain't going to be seeing Temple Judaism any time soon. Actually impossible, now. But anyways, the Egyptians tried it with Atem, while the Hindus(which India classifies as EVERYONE in India who isn't a Farsi, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or tribal) have some thing about every deity being a part of some overarching I don't know what it is.
 
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