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2007-03-05 11:23:19 · 6 answers · asked by multipły 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Many do. In fact a study done in 2004 indicated that nearly a million people in Greece alone had taken up the worship of their ancestral Gods their TRUE Gods, in some form or another. While there were no numbers with regards to the numbers of Greeks outside of Greece that follow the old gods...estimates have been made of numbers in excess of five million Greeks world wide that have returned to their TURE Gods...and those numbers are considered to be conservative.

2007-03-05 18:34:04 · answer #1 · answered by gotherunereadings 3 · 0 0

Yes, most of the ancient rituals concerned with Pan deities were absorbed by Early church, and the current god in Greece is Greek Orthodox in flavour, but some like the Greek Catholic version...

By the year 313, when the Edict of Milan marked a decisive rapprochement between the Roman Empire and the Church, the Church already had behind it two centuries of existence at the heart of a Hellenism that had itself been drawn into the flow of history during that time. To be sure that ancient religious system was still in place, under the benevolent aegis of the reigning power and elites and in the collective conservation of tradition.

The ancient traditions and their symbolic interpretations are combined with borrowings of varying antiquity from cultures bearing little or none of the stamp of Hellenism from the Roman or Persian East. Among these cultures is Judaism in its diverse currents, which at that time was elaborating its theory of angels and defining the figure of Satan, itself undergoing influences from Persia. This was also the time when an obsession with demons, invisible and omnipresent assailants, was developing, an obsession that Christianity would claim for its own from the start. Finally, the myths taught in the Gnostic sect, of which some existed within Christianity itself, are perhaps the most striking monument to the powers of invention that were manifesting themselves at the time. These would have a medieval posterity of their own.

Christian Hellenism, then, did not forget the ancient religious strand but eclipsed the names of the gods under whose patronage he old rituals were performed and, by that act, dissolved the mythic accounts that explained those rituals.

2007-03-05 11:37:33 · answer #2 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 0 1

Some do. I am not a Greek, but I am dipping into Hellenistic Reconstructionalism [Greek god worship].

2007-03-05 11:28:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

greek mythology is a dead religion...meaning its no longer a religion really. there may be individuals who worship those false gods....but for it to still be formed as a religion....its dead.

2007-03-05 11:26:39 · answer #4 · answered by Teenager 5 · 0 2

While some do, many are coverted to either islam or christianity.

2007-03-05 11:43:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Some do.

2007-03-05 11:26:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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