Assianism


Assianism
Уацдин
Tkhost Temple, dedicated to Uastyrdzhi, in the Kurtat Gorge, Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania
TypeEthnic religion
ClassificationIranian
Caucasian neopagan (politically)
ScriptureNart saga
TheologyPolytheistic
PolityOssetia

Assianism (Ossetian: Уацдин, romanized: Uatsdin)[a] is a polytheistic, ethnic and folk religion derived from the traditional mythology 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]

  1. ^ Foltz 2019, pp. 325–326.
  2. ^ Shizhensky 2018a, p. 128.
  3. ^ Foltz 2019, passim.
  4. ^ Foltz 2019, p. 321.
  5. ^ Foltz 2019, p. 318.
  6. ^ Lesiv 2013, pp. 167–169.
  7. ^ Shtyrkov 2011, p. 240; Foltz 2019, p. 328.


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