A Neo-pagan History Quiz!

Early Neo-Pagans had a very fluid and non-dogmatic theology. Literal belief in the gods was not required.

Gerald Gardner's goddess was not triple. Jane Ellen Harrison only wrote about the Maiden and the Mother. Starhawk probably adopted the idea Z. Budapest, who borrowed it from Robert Graves.

Heathenry and Neo-Paganism appeared and developed over the same period, but had little interaction until the 1990s.

The sacrifice of the Pagan god of the harvest occurs in the autumn. The Christian God is sacrificed in spring.

Oberon Zell anticipated the Gaia Hypothesis in 1970. Ordination of priestesses was always a part of Neo-Paganism. Theological relativism or pluralism, the idea that no one conception of divinity is adequate, was common among early Neo-Pagans. Pagan nationalism was associated with National Socialism in German and did not become a phenomenon again until the fall of the Soviet Union.

The correct source for "All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals." is Doreen Valiente.

The name was actually first suggested by a friend, but Oberon Zell was responsible for its popularization.

The literalization of polytheism did not become common until the 2000s.

While the Triple Goddess was not as ubiquitous as Neo-Pagans often claim, she can be found in the writings of the Roman authors, Porphyry and Servius.

Margot Adler, the Farrars, and Doreen Valiente were all strongly influenced by Jungian ideas.

Aidan Kelly, one of the founders of NROODG, named 7 of the 8 Sabbats, including inventing the name "Mabon" for the autumn equinox without any historical precedent. He called the February cross-quarter "Brigid", but it was later renamed "Imbolc". Kelly's appellations were published in the Green Egg newsletter, which accounts for their adoption by Neo-Pagans generally.

Source: Sarah Pike, New Age and Neo-Pagan Religions in America (2006). The Neo-Pagan Revival arose out of the American Counterculture.