 Assianism | |
|---|---|
| Уацдин | |
 | |
| Type | Ethnic religion |
| Classification | Iranian, Caucasian neopagan |
| Scripture | Nart saga |
| Theology | Polytheistic |
| Polity | Ossetia |
Assianism (Ossetian: Уацдин, romanized: Uatsdin)[a] is a polytheistic, ethnic and folk religion derived from the traditional narratives of the Ossetians, modern descendants of the Scythians of the Alan tribes, believed[by whom?] to be a continuation of the ancient Scythian religion.[3] It started to be properly reorganized in a conscious way during the 1980s, as an ethnic religion among the Ossetians.[4]
The religion has been incorporated by some organisations, chiefly in North Ossetia–Alania within Russia, but is also present in South Ossetia,[5] and in Ukraine.[6] The Nart sagas are central to the religion, and exponents of the movement have drawn theological exegeses from them.[7]
- ^ Foltz 2019, pp. 325–326.
- ^ Shizhensky 2018a, p. 128.
- ^ Foltz 2019, passim.
- ^ Foltz 2019, p. 321.
- ^ Foltz 2019, p. 318.
- ^ Lesiv 2013, pp. 167–169.
- ^ Shtyrkov 2011, p. 240; Foltz 2019, p. 328.
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