How to use in-sentence of “pagan”:
+ He was the pagan governor of Alexandria.
+ The idea of thirteen as an unlucky number is from pagan Norse mythology.
+ He finds out that the island is run by a pagan cult who are hostile of outsiders, including him.
+ The northern islands are volcanic, with active volcanos on Anatahan, Pagan IslandPagan and Agrihan.
+ Yuletide is a pagan holiday also known as the Winter solstice.
+ All Hallows’ is a Christianized holiday and originated in Ireland, it also has pagan roots.
+ Although his father was pagan Wulfhere was a Christian.
Example sentences of “pagan”:
+ A former pagan temple from ancient Rome existed in the place where there was the Visigothic cathedral A Mediterranean version of Gothic architecture is the main style of this cathedral.
+ The influence of the books brought eastern gods such as Apollo, the "Great Mother" Cybele, and Ceres, as well as Greek pagan beliefs, into the Roman pagan religion.
+ Christian priests regarded Glima as a pagan activity and tried to eliminate it when Scandinavia, became Christian.
+ A former pagan temple from ancient Rome existed in the place where there was the Visigothic cathedral A Mediterranean version of Gothic architecture is the main style of this cathedral.
+ The influence of the books brought eastern gods such as Apollo, the “Great Mother” Cybele, and Ceres, as well as Greek pagan beliefs, into the Roman pagan religion.
+ Christian priests regarded Glima as a pagan activity and tried to eliminate it when Scandinavia, became Christian.
+ October 31/November 1 is Samhain in old Pagan tradition.
+ The pagan Vikings were exposed to Christianity from the beginning of the Viking Age.
+ The pagan King Penda of Mercia and the Christian king of Gynedd, Cadwallon ap Cadfan joined forces to attack Northumbria.
+ Another possibility is that the Aksumite power was ended by a southern pagan queen named Bani al-Hamwiyah, possibly of the tribe al-Damutah or Damoti of the Sidama people.
+ Because of the pagan origins of the holidays, the True Jesus Church does not celebrate Easter and Christmas.
+ There is no agreement on when the Games officially ended, but many historians think it is 393AD, when the emperor Theodosius I declared that all Pagan religious practices should end.
+ Some believe this date was used by the Catholic Church to replace the pagan rites that took place at that time of the year.
+ Even after pagan gods disappeared from the coins, Christians symbols never appeared on the coin, either.
+ Many Pagan peoples made human sacrifices and animal sacrifices.
+ Although the Eddur are the most important written records remaining today about Norse mythology, they are not very reliable because Christians hated pagan religions, and they changed the original tales to make the Norse gods and goddesses look silly, lusty, and barbaric.
+ In 1226 Konrad of MasoviaKonrad of Masovia brought the Teutonic Knights to fight against Baltic pagan Prussian tribes.
+ Bjelland and Love made a new band called Pagan Babies around 1985.
+ Serbians adopted well the new religion and, unlike in the countries above, there were not any pagan rebellions against the Christianity.
More in-sentence examples of “pagan”:
+ The album is named after a dimension described in the Slavic pagan Book of Veles.
+ The Romans had built shrines and temples to their pagan gods and continued to patronize these, even after the adoption of Christianity by Rome.
+ There were other crusades against Islamic forces in southern Spain, southern Italy, and Sicily, as well as the campaigns of Teutonic knights against pagan strongholds in Eastern Europe, and crusades against Catharism or other Christian heresies.
+ The album is named after a dimension described in the Slavic pagan Book of Veles.
+ The Romans had built shrines and temples to their pagan gods and continued to patronize these, even after the adoption of Christianity by Rome.
+ There were other crusades against Islamic forces in southern Spain, southern Italy, and Sicily, as well as the campaigns of Teutonic knights against pagan strongholds in Eastern Europe, and crusades against Catharism or other Christian heresies.
+ He centralized the country a lot, beacause before baptism of Poland, this country was quite centralized as a Pagan country.
+ Borat was a pagan for most of his life.
+ The epic poem “Beowulf” is an important source of Anglo-Saxon pagan poetry and history, but it is clearly addressed to a Christian audience, containing numerous references to the Christian God, and using Christian phrasing and metaphor.
+ The pagan holiday “Samhain”, which the “All Saints” holy day replaced, was also known as the “Day of the Dead”.
+ After recording the demo, they started to perform live with bands like Butterfly Temple, Pagan Reign, Svarga, and Rossomahaar.
+ The idol of al-lāt and other signs of the city’s previously pagan past were destroyed.
+ The village name ‘Wensley’ comes from the words “Woden’s ley”, or meadow of the pagan god Woden.
+ They met in Badr, but the pagans were defeated and Abu Jahl, one of the pagan leaders, was also killed.
+ Particularly important are his contributions in Volume V of the “Antiquities of our pagan past where he developed, a chronology system, based on an historical analysis of stylistic features and on typological characteristics, that has essentially retained its validity to this day.
+ In the early seventh century AD, pagan West Slavs named the Croats came to live in the former province of Dalmatia when they conquered the people already living there.
+ Christian holidays were often near the dates of pagan ones.
+ This custom started in the sixth century when a man named Mercury was elected Pope, it was seen as inappropriate to have a Pope named after a pagan god so he named himself John II, in honor of his predecessor, John I; it became customary in the tenth century.
+ Barrow Wake was as the location for the music video “Wytches” by Pagan Rock Band Inkubus Sukkubus in December 1993.
+ She was a keen Christian but also believed that pagan and eastern religions also contained genuine worth.
+ His book is a message to the Jews in exile in Babylon, saying that the disaster of exile is God’s response to Israel’s pagan worship.
+ It is certain that when one Christian writer, Athenagoras of Athens, wrote “A Plea for the Christians” to Emperor Marcus Aurelius in around 176 AD, at a time when Christians were being punished by the pagan Roman Empire, he quoted word-for-word from these “Oracles” that are known today.
+ Finnish paganism was a pagan religion in Finland and Karelia before the Finnish people were Christian.
+ The pagan celebration of Yuletide became Christmas along with the custom of the Christmas tree.
+ The town is about The walled city was a pagan religious centre.
+ Arkona is a Russian pagan metal band formed in 2002.
+ The work deals with biblical as well as pagan subjects, from which it is inferred that the writer was a Christian.
+ The latter was written down much later, by Snorri Sturluson, because Iceland remained pagan until well into the Christian era.
+ It follows a group of friends who travel to Sweden for a Summer solsticemidsummmer clutches of a dangerous pagan cult.
+ There are same few groups of pre-Christian pagan in the city.
+ In 1984 she started Pagan Babies.
+ Peada was a pagan who accepted baptism in order to marry the daughter of Oswiu of Northumbria.
+ This is followed by an account of the history of the alphabet, which weaves together elements of Greek mythology and the Hebrew Bible as well as several Jewish and pagan texts: according to this account, the Hebrew alphabet was first handed down to mankind by divine inspiration during the generation of Enoch, but was lost during the Confusion of Tongues.
+ A Nithing pole, according to ancient Scandinavian and Germanic pagan beliefs, was a kind of pole used for cursing enemies.
+ Stoic doctrine was popular in Greece and the Roman Empire from its founding until all the schools of philosophy were ordered closed in 529 AD by the Emperor Justinian I, who thought their pagan character was at odds with his Christian faith.
+ Nokturnal Mortum is a pagan black metal band from Ukraine.
+ In 1216, Pope Innocent III agreed that King Erik was King of Sweden, and also any other pagan lands he captured, probably Finland.
+ Ozick received an Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the National Jewish Book Award for her short story collection, “The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories” in 1971.
+ The stories from Greek mythology are famous examples from a pagan religion.
+ Their practices have since been studied by many researchers in the field of pagan studies.
+ He was a noble of the royal house of Mercia and a pagan his entire life.
+ Historically the Walpurgisnacht is derived from Pagan spring customs, where the arrival of spring was celebrated with bonfires at night.
+ Chapter 9: Religions from the Past–The Pagan Reconstructionists.
+ In 1497, he and his followers went to the Piazza della Signoria, and began to burn mirrors, cosmetics, obscenityobscene pictures, pagan books, gaming tables, musical instruments, fine dresses, women’s hats, and the works of immoral and ancient poets.
+ John Chrysostom wrote that unlike other pagan rulers of the Romans, Philip was tolerant to the Christians and let them practise their faith openly.
+ Caedwalla was a pagan king who fought for and promoted Christianity.
+ Despite the pagan references in the tale, she notes that “Thumbelina” refers to ChristianityChrist‘s suffering and resurrection, and the Christian concept of salvation.
+ These celebrations are related more to the pagan festivals of ancient Germany.
+ These included the Pagan Kingdom, the Sukhothai Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa.
+ All religions have their symbols of holiness: the Christian cross, or statues of Mother Mary and Saint Theresa, the holy Kaaba in Mecca, the Sikh Adi Granth enshrined in the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Arc and Torah of the Jews, the image of a meditating Buddha, the totemismtotems of indigenous and Pagan faiths, and the artifacts of the holy men and women of all religions.
+ The pagan state was targeted in the Northern Crusadereligious crusade by the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Order.
+ The grain can be seen as an example of where a Christian saint took over from an older pagan concept, in this case of the Grain Mother.
+ When the pagan Frankish king Clovis became Christian in the late 5th century that was an important event in the history of Europe.