The popular use of amulets was a polytheistic tradition that lingered and sometimes combined old and new religious themes.

Hellenistic polytheistic traditions survived in some pockets of Greece into the 9th century.

In monotheism, the single God is often also the creator deity, while polytheistic traditions may or may not have creator deities.

In the polytheistic Germanic tradition, if Odin failed, one absolutely could try it with Christ for once.

With the expansion of Islam, polytheistic Arabs were rapidly Islamized, and polytheistic traditions gradually disappeared.

A dawn goddess is a deity in a polytheistic religious tradition who is in some sense associated with the dawn.

In the polytheistic Germanic tradition it was possible to worship Jesus next to the native gods like Woden and Thor.

Some Africans and their descendants, however, held onto elements of polytheistic religious traditions by merging them with Catholicism.

However, the specifics of Druidry have changed over the centuries, from a God-centred monotheistic tradition to a Goddess-centred polytheistic tradition.

Many polytheistic traditions portray their gods as feeling a wide range of emotions.