Early Hellenistic - before Judaism were monotheistic. Dionysus as practiced in Cyprus around 4bc.
What is this? Hellenistic in English refers to the era of the successor states to Alexander. I think what you must mean is 'Hellenic', meaning Greek, so why didn't you just say "Greek". What does "Cyprus around 4bc" mean? Do you mean 4,000 BC, 400 BC or 4 BC? Dionysus was the Greek God of wine, part of a polytheistic pantheon. If you could provide a source for this claim about Cyprus that would be better. Cyprus was not the home of the Greeks, they migrated there, or to be more specific, the Achaean tribe migrated there in the First Millennium BC, so whatever Greek religion was there, it was only a late version of a specific tribe of Greeks, it does not represent Greek religion as a whole. Besides Cyprus was also said to be the birthplace of Aphrodite, so Dionysus was not the only deity worshiped in Cyprus.
Mitharism,
Mithra was one of many Gods in the Persian Polytheistic pantheon, he was God of the Sun and was equated with Apollo by the Greeks. Mithraism took on the form of a Monotheistic faith during the Roman Era as a competitor with Christianity.
Hypsistarians
According to the wiki article,
Hypsistarians emerged in the Hellenistic era starting around 200 BC and the term was first used in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament. You were supposed to be providing examples of Monotheistic religions that had no contact with Judaism, not ones that were influenced by it.
Zoroastrians,
Same thing as Mithraism, Ahura Mazda was one of many gods in the Persian pantheon during the Acheamenid era, of which Mithra (God of the Sun) and Anahita (Goddess of water) were others. Ahura Mazda would later evolve into one of 2 deities in the Zoroastrian Faith (Dualistic not Monotheistic), but again this occurred in a Middle Eastern world were Judaism was already well known, it did not develop in isolation.
For a source on early Polytheistic religions of Achaemenid Persia, you can read "
The Persian Empire" by J.M. Cook
Many form of Hinduism - were monotheists. American Indians - belief in the great creator. Henotheism - some form were Mono. Henotheism - but they accepted other Gods - but devoted just to one. Then there are many form of mono - in China before Confucianism and Taoism.
These are very vague terms, "many forms of Hinduism were Monotheistic" Which ones? When? When ? Where? What is the evidence? And American Indians? Which tribes? What is the evidence? And China, ditto. Henotheism by its very definition accepts more than one God and is therefore polytheistic.
Early history of Indo-European tribes emerge with one powerful God. History of this Dyeus bears signs of being monotheistic. later descended into many Gods. Zeus and whatnot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DyeusIn the very first sentence of that wiki link, it clarifies that these were polytheistic societies:
Dyēus (also *Dyēus ph2ter) is believed to have been chief deity in the religious traditions of the prehistoric Proto-Indo-European tribes. Part of a larger pantheon, he was the god of the daylight sky, and his position may have mirrored the position of the patriarch or monarch in society. This deity is not directly attested; rather scholars have reconstructed this deity from the languages and cultures of later Indo-European nations.
But most importantly ALL of the religions that you have brought up practiced idolatry. A great sin in Islam.
and i acknowledge the question of proof too.
No if you are making claims that go against all mainstream academia on a subject then the burden of proof lies on you to back these claims up with strong sources, preferably peer-reviewed by other academics in the field.
Hang on - your whole stance on dogs is/was wrong. I pointed that out - why the rough shod over this?
I said that dogs are hated in Islam, you protested over the semantics. Nevertheless you did not find a single culture that has the same or similar attitude towards dogs in their religion.
You are not making a logical argument at all. I asked you to provide an example of where where circumcision was practiced in cultures that did not have contact with Middle Eastern societies, to back up the claim that circumcision came from God, not a cultural practice from the Middle East. And you provided examples that are all from the vicinity of the Middle East and all had contact with Semitic peoples. Stating that it happened "Outside of Hebrew Faith" is missing the point entirely and you know that.
Concept of Angels - predates Islam and the like.
Again you are missing the point, that does not support a claim that the concept is from fairy tales or reality. Find a culture on another continent (i.e. an isolated island, or the Americas, or Australia) where the native people have anything in their religion that resembles Islam (i.e. visited by an angel called Gabriel, told by God to practice circumcision, etc.)
Topic: polytheism / monotheism