Classical paganism expired between the sixth century AD when Justinian closed the last temples of the Asia Minor and Egypt and some centuries into the Islamic era in relation to the Syrian city of Harran that clung to a sort of astrological and philosophical polytheism. Regarding revivalists of classical cults I cannot see it as anything other than a silly hobby. This in the past meant a separate and privileged clerical estate but has post-Enlightenment freed countries from the bonds of conflicting dogmas. Western Europe was from early times able to formulate the idea of separate spaces of church and state. Shinto has in the past legitimised certain aspects of Japanese militarism. One of the problems of Hinduism is that it has become a sort of polytheistic/henotheistic church with missionaries and a political or unitary consciousness that has perhaps underlain much of the inter-communal violence in India. Maybe he means to remake polytheism after Christianity like say Maximinus Daia tried to do with the old cults of Rome by creating a sort of pagan church with a regular hierarchy of clergy and a care of the poor. Finally in 608 it was handed over by Emperor Phocas to Pope IV and consecrated to Our Lady and all the martyrs. The Pantheon was built by Agrippa in 25 BC as a temple to all the gods of Rome and retained this function when Hadrian remodelled it between 120 and 125.
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