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Neopagans often insist that they are going back to a religion older and more deeply rooted than Christianity, but that's literally nonsense.
We have records of European Pagan religions starting in around 700 BC, with some limited understanding of Mycenaean religion, so the oldest known pagan religion existed in a recognizable form from around 1,500 BC to 400 AD, similar to the 2,000 year history of Christianity. Before that, Greek paganism is just bog-standard Indo-European paganism with some weird Levantine and Anatolian influences.
And we understand Hellenistic paganism a lot better than other European Pre-Christian faiths. We have a lot of indications that there was major religious turnover in the Celtic and Germanic worlds, so the idea that some Neonazi or Wiccan in 2026 has access to a unique and authentic and unchanged spirituality from the Iron Age is, uh, larp.
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