Assianism
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Assianism (), sometimes called Uatsdin is a polytheistic, ethnic and folk religion derived from the traditional narratives of the Ossetians, modern descendants of the Alans of the Scythian tribes, believed to be a continuation of the ancient Scythian religion. It started to be properly reorganized in a conscious way during the 1980s, as an ethnic religion among the Ossetians.
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- Religion.name
- Assianism
- Religion.native_name
- Уацдин
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- Tkhost Temple, dedicated to Uastyrdzhi, in the Kurtat Gorge, Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania
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- Ethnic religion
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- Iranian, Caucasian neopagan
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- Nart saga
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- Polytheistic
- Religion.polity
- Ossetia
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26 sectionsContents
- Etymology and definition
- History
- From the ancient Scythians to the modern Ossetians
- Between the traditional and the new religion
- Writings
- Theology and cosmology
- God and its triune manifestations
- The seven planetary deities and other deities
- Ethics
- Practices
- Myths and rites
- Shrines and temples
- Symbolism
- Relations with other philosophies and religions
- With Eurasianism
- With Christianity
- Demography and institutions
- Russia
- ''South Ossetia''
- Ukraine
- See also
- Citations
- References
- Sources
- Notes
- External links
Assianism (), sometimes called Uatsdin is a polytheistic, ethnic and folk religion derived from the traditional narratives of the Ossetians, modern descendants of the Alans of the Scythian tribes, believed to be a continuation of the ancient Scythian religion. It started to be properly reorganized in a conscious way during the 1980s, as an ethnic religion among the Ossetians.
The religion has been incorporated by some organisations, chiefly in North Ossetia–Alania within Russia, but is also present in South Ossetia, and in Ukraine. The Nart sagas are central to the religion, and exponents of the movement have drawn theological exegeses from them.