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Beliefs
Their beliefs range between polytheism, animism and monism. Polytheism
means believeng in more than one god. Animism is the belief that everything
has a spiritual essence, monism means that reality only consits of one
substance.
To hellenes animal and polytheistic worship is really important. Other than the
greek gods they also worship the spirits of nature, underworld deites and
heroes. Both physical and spiritual ancestors are greatly honored. And their
gods both have universal and local charactheristics.
I looked up their website, where you can find their opinion on several subjects,
including christianity. „We believe in Gods co-existing with the Nature, it
believes in an extra-terrestrial god who hates Nature. We bring love, peace and
wisdom, it brought hatred, slaughter and evil.”
In 2004, why planning the olympic games, there were multiple events that
made hellenes extremely upset. during preparations some ancient
archaeological sites such as the Parthenon and Acropolis suffered destruction
which caused public outrage. Some vandalists also destroyed books in a
bookstore, which was promoting hellenism. "A contrast in this place where the
Olympic Games were created to honour Zeus - now those praying to the ancient
gods are criticized for putting too much faith in the past."
And lastly, people found the game’s mascots culturally insensitive and mocking
the greek gods AThena and Phobeus. People stated that they mock the spiritual
values of the Hellenic Civilization, and they also pressed charges
on 22 January 2007, the Hellenist group Ellinais held a ceremony at the historic
Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, which was importan tbc these rituals have
been banned for decades. PArticipiants dressed up as ancient warriors,
however several orthodox greek priests thought this was dangerous, and were
upset with people wanting to practice this old religion.
A modern Hellenic temple in Athens is still in the planning stages,
2017, the Greek government finally recognised Hellenism as an official religion,
over 1600 years after the Ancient Hellenic religion was banned by Emperor
Theodosius I.