Ok so an offshoot of Mesopotamian paganism might have survived into early modern period.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shams%C4%AByah>The Shamsīyah were a tribe or sect of sun-worshippers in northern Mesopotamia, concentrated in the city of Mardin (in modern south-eastern Turkey) and the surrounding Tur Abdin region. They converted to the Syriac Orthodox Church in the 17th century in order to avoid persecution in the Ottoman Empire but retained their own set of beliefs and practices; many travellers who observed and met with them doubted the extent to which they were actually Christian.>According to the Assyriologist Simo Parpola, the Shamsīyah were possibly the last known adherents of a late version of the ancient Mesopotamian religion,[14] an ancient set of beliefs thought to have first formed in Mesopotamia in the sixth millennium BC.[15] This would make them the longest standing pagan community in Mesopotamia.[5]>The Anglican missionary Joseph Wolff, who passed through Mardin in 1824, noted that the Shamsīyah told him that they worshipped "the sun, the moon, and the stars" and that the sun was "their malech, their king">There were still Shamsīyah in Mardin at the outbreak of World War I but their subsequent fate is unknown and they appear to have since disappeared,[4] perhaps merging into the rest of the Syriac Orthodox Church.[4][25] They are thus considered to be extinct as a religious group.[10] The only trace of the Shamsīyah in present-day Mardin are architectural traces left behind by the community, most notably the motifs carved by the Shamsīyah at the entrances of their doors, many of which continue to face the sun.>According to Febvre in 1675, the Shamsīyah after their conversion adopted the Syriac Orthodox practices of baptisms and burial ceremonies, but kept their own sun-worshipping practices as well, which they performed in secret assemblies.
>>18539832It's called christianity
>>18539832the reference is from 2004, but still warning that Parpola was suffering from terminal emeritus professor syndrome by 2016 at the latest
>>18539832Wait until you hear about the Sabians of Harran, who mixed Mesopotamian religion with Neoplatonism (they worshipped the Neoplatonic triad of To Hen/The One, Nous/Intellect, and Psyche/Soul and the Seven Spheres/Planets) and survived to fucking Islam disguised as the People of the Book.http://www.melammu-project.eu/database/gen_html/a0000416.html>al-Masˁūdī, The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems: "The Harranian Sabians have temples according to the names of the intellectual substances and the stars. To these temples belong: the temples of the first cause and of Intelligence, but I do not know whether it is the first or second Intelligence; also, the temple of the world order, Necessity. The temple of the soul is round; of Saturn, hexagonal; of Jupiter, triangular; of Mars, long (rectangular); the Sun square; that of Venus, a triangle in a quadrangle; that of Mercury, a triangle inside an elongated quadrangle, and that of the moon, octagonal. The Sabians have in them symbols and mysteries which they keep hidden.">Ibn al-Nadim, The Book Catalogue: "These people [the Harranian Sabians] agree that the world has a prime cause [the transcendent deity] who is eternal and a unity, rather than multiple. No attribute of things created is connected with Him. He has charged discerning persons whom He has created to acknowledge His lordship."
>>18540879http://www.melammu-project.eu/database/gen_html/a0000473.html>Al-Nadīm, Fihrist 9.1: "The beginning of the year is Nisan. On the first, as well as the second and third days of Nisan, they pray humbly to their goddess, Balthā, who is Venus. When entering the shrine of the goddess on these days, group by group in a scattered way, they slaughter sacrificial victims and burn animals alive. On the 6th day they slay for their divinity, the Moon, a bull, which they eat at the end of the day. On the 9th day they fast and then break the fast with the meat of lamb. On this day they also hold a feast in honor of the seven deities, the devils, jinn, and spirits. They burn seven lambs for the seven deities, a sheep for the Lord of the Blind, and a sheep for the deities (which are) the devils">"On the 15th day they celebrate the mystery of the North with offerings, sun worship, sacrificial slaughter, burnt offerings, eating, and drinking. On the 20th day they go out to Dayr Kādī, which is a sanctuary near one of the gates of Harran known as Inn of the Oil Gate. They slaughter three zabrukh, a zabrukh being a bull. One is for the god Kronos, who is Saturn, one is for Arīs, who is Mars, the Blind God; and one is for the Moon, which is Sīn. They also slay nine lambs: seven for the seven deities, one for the god of the jinn, and one for the Lord of the Hours. They also burn (offerings of) many lambs and cocks. On the 28th day, they go out to a sanctuary of theirs in a village named Sabtā, near to one of the gates of Harran called Gate of Mirage. They slay a large bull to Hermes, the god, and they also slaughter nine lambs for the seven deities, with one also for the god of the jinn and one for the Lord of the Hours. They eath and drink, but on this day they do not burn any animals."
Isn't this stuff pretty common? I'm from eastern yurop and my grandma was orthodox christian on the surface but still deeply believed and practiced all sorts of folkloric shit that must have had its roots in pre-christian pagan beliefs.
>>18540879>NeoplatonismBased.
