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Moreover, there has to be historical and demographic data here, too. Are the believers mostly goth teenagers from the U.S., Egyptologists, Egyptians--or what? And how did the "neo" part get started? Who up and decided to start believing in the ancient Egyptian gods again? --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 10:55, 24 July 2007 (CDT) | Moreover, there has to be historical and demographic data here, too. Are the believers mostly goth teenagers from the U.S., Egyptologists, Egyptians--or what? And how did the "neo" part get started? Who up and decided to start believing in the ancient Egyptian gods again? --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 10:55, 24 July 2007 (CDT) | ||
== Neopaganism == | |||
I have been studying these "subcultures" so long that I forget they are rather marginal. | |||
In recent years, various neopagan groups have been created centering around the "pre-Christian" pantheons. Members are not "re-enactors--they are seriously devoted to the "old gods." | |||
Here are two "wikis" devoted to the subject. I write for both and I am an administrator for the first. Indeed, I wrote the Egyptian neopagan article initially for the first site. | |||
[http://pagan.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page pagan wikia] | |||
[http://www.paganwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page paganwiki] | |||
--[[User:Mark Mirabello|Mark Mirabello]] 20:17, 24 July 2007 (CDT) | |||
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This is a new one on me. Are these people re-enactors, like the Society for Creative Anachronism, or do they actually say they believe in the ancient Egyptian gods? If the former, the article really needs to explain that up front, it seems to me. If the latter, then there is one aspect of the topic that absolutely 100% has to be included, namely, how and why on Earth do modern people go back to believing in ancient Egyptian gods?
Moreover, there has to be historical and demographic data here, too. Are the believers mostly goth teenagers from the U.S., Egyptologists, Egyptians--or what? And how did the "neo" part get started? Who up and decided to start believing in the ancient Egyptian gods again? --Larry Sanger 10:55, 24 July 2007 (CDT)
Neopaganism
I have been studying these "subcultures" so long that I forget they are rather marginal.
In recent years, various neopagan groups have been created centering around the "pre-Christian" pantheons. Members are not "re-enactors--they are seriously devoted to the "old gods."
Here are two "wikis" devoted to the subject. I write for both and I am an administrator for the first. Indeed, I wrote the Egyptian neopagan article initially for the first site.
--Mark Mirabello 20:17, 24 July 2007 (CDT)