WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Polytheism means believing in many gods. A person that believes in polytheism is called a polytheist. A religion with polytheism can be called a polytheistic religion. • Polytheism is well documented in historical religions of classical antiquity, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

Detailed explanation-2: -Polytheistic religions are religions that worship more than one god. Major polytheistic religions include ancient Greek religion, Hinduism, and African tribe religions. Hinduism is a major polytheistic religion and the third largest religion in the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -Henotheism (Greek “one god") is a term coined by Max Müller, to mean devotion to a single primary god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other deities. Müller stated that henotheism means “monotheism in principle and polytheism in fact".

Detailed explanation-4: -Religious syncretism is the blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions.