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These religions are not well known through out the world but do have a considerable number of followers wherever they are based.
1. Nuwaubianism
The Nuwaubians originated as a Black Muslim group in New York in the 1970s, and have gone through many changes since. Eventually, the group established headquarters in Putnam County, Georgia in 1993, which they have since abandoned. Their founder is now in prison after having been convicted on money laundering and child molestation charges. But Nuwaubianism endures.
nuwaubianfacts.com
White people are said in one Nuwaubian myth to have been originally created as a race of killers to serve blacks as a slave army, but this plan went awry. Followers believe women existed for many generations before they invented men through genetic manipulation. However, we are not sure if women are empowered within their community.
2. Prince Phillip Movement (PPM)
The prince-regent and spouse of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II can feel like a king among these people of the Yaohnanen region of the Tanna state of Vanuatu. According to local legends, the son of an earth spirit travelled far away across the sea to marry a powerful woman, and this man would one day return to the island. After observing how local officials responded and reacted to a visit by Queen Elizabeth, the followers of the movement supposed that this woman’s husband must be the spirit’s son from these legends. PPM followers celebrate the Prince’s birthday on 10 June each year as a full-blown religious festival.
express.co.uk
3. Raelism
Claude Vorilhons, a French race-car driver, started Raelism and derived it from the honorific name given to Vorilhons, by aliens who abducted him before revealing the true origins of mankind. Whuttt? Claude (or Rael, as he was dubbed) was taken to a distant planet called Elohim by the aforementioned aliens, where he was honoured enough to meet great philosophers and religious thinkers throughout history, including Jesus, Confucius, Buddha and Joseph Smith (the founder of Mormonism). In addition to revealing that life on earth began when humans were created from alien DNA 25,000 years ago, the aliens also informed Rael that the Earth should expect their arrival in Jerusalem in the year 2025. Only 10 more years to go!
pixgood.com
4. Aghori
The Aghori or Aghouri is a Hindu cult that is considered to have split off from the Kapalika order in the 14th Century AD. Many Hindus condemn the Aghoris due to their cannibalistic rituals. Followers of this cult carry a kapala, which is a cup made from a skull! These bizarre people will eat anything from rotten food to animal faeces. In order to achieve the highest citadel of enlightenment, the Aghori will perform horrendously crude rituals. The finality of their rituals is attained from eating the decaying flesh of a human.
gerrypacher.ch
The roots of the Aghori date back to ancient times. An Aghori ascetic who went by the name of Kinaram is responsible for the present-day rituals and beliefs of the cult. They believe he is a re-incarnation of Lord Shiva.
5. Panawave
Based in Japan, this exceedingly odd group is scared witless by the presence of electromagnetic waves in the modern world, blaming them for climate change, environmental destruction and other worldly ills. This took place in 1994, and there have been multiple publicity-attracting acts since, such as the 2003 attempted abduction of an Arctic seal which had appeared in a Tokyo river. The group reasoned that electromagnetic waves were the cause of this seal’s strange appearance, and that returning it to the Arctic would avert the coming doomsday.
keppay.deviantart
6. Universe People
Like Raelism, this is another alien-inspired religion. This Czech group bases its beliefs on extraterrestrial communications with founder Ivo Benda from 1997 onward. According to Benda, aliens have a fleet of ships orbiting the Earth at any given time, led by a being named Ashtar who watches the people of the Earth, ready to transport good and loyal followers to another dimension. Space tourism enthusiasts might be a huge chunk of their followers.
toptenfamous.com
7. The Church Of All Worlds
The largest neo-pagan religion in the world, the Church of All Worlds was set up in 1962 by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (nice name!) and his wife, Morning Glory (good lord!). Taking its name from Robert Heinlein’s Strange in a Strange Land, followers worship the Earth itself in the form of Gaea, as well as assorted gods from a range of other religious pantheons (mostly Ancient Greece). Oberon as head of the Church, goes by the title of ‘Primate’, while followers are known as ‘Waterkin’.
smosh.com
13 Religions From Around The World That Are Just Too Weird To Be Mainstream
1. Nuwaubianism
The Nuwaubians originated as a Black Muslim group in New York in the 1970s, and have gone through many changes since. Eventually, the group established headquarters in Putnam County, Georgia in 1993, which they have since abandoned. Their founder is now in prison after having been convicted on money laundering and child molestation charges. But Nuwaubianism endures.
nuwaubianfacts.com
White people are said in one Nuwaubian myth to have been originally created as a race of killers to serve blacks as a slave army, but this plan went awry. Followers believe women existed for many generations before they invented men through genetic manipulation. However, we are not sure if women are empowered within their community.
2. Prince Phillip Movement (PPM)
The prince-regent and spouse of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II can feel like a king among these people of the Yaohnanen region of the Tanna state of Vanuatu. According to local legends, the son of an earth spirit travelled far away across the sea to marry a powerful woman, and this man would one day return to the island. After observing how local officials responded and reacted to a visit by Queen Elizabeth, the followers of the movement supposed that this woman’s husband must be the spirit’s son from these legends. PPM followers celebrate the Prince’s birthday on 10 June each year as a full-blown religious festival.
express.co.uk
3. Raelism
Claude Vorilhons, a French race-car driver, started Raelism and derived it from the honorific name given to Vorilhons, by aliens who abducted him before revealing the true origins of mankind. Whuttt? Claude (or Rael, as he was dubbed) was taken to a distant planet called Elohim by the aforementioned aliens, where he was honoured enough to meet great philosophers and religious thinkers throughout history, including Jesus, Confucius, Buddha and Joseph Smith (the founder of Mormonism). In addition to revealing that life on earth began when humans were created from alien DNA 25,000 years ago, the aliens also informed Rael that the Earth should expect their arrival in Jerusalem in the year 2025. Only 10 more years to go!
pixgood.com
4. Aghori
The Aghori or Aghouri is a Hindu cult that is considered to have split off from the Kapalika order in the 14th Century AD. Many Hindus condemn the Aghoris due to their cannibalistic rituals. Followers of this cult carry a kapala, which is a cup made from a skull! These bizarre people will eat anything from rotten food to animal faeces. In order to achieve the highest citadel of enlightenment, the Aghori will perform horrendously crude rituals. The finality of their rituals is attained from eating the decaying flesh of a human.
gerrypacher.ch
The roots of the Aghori date back to ancient times. An Aghori ascetic who went by the name of Kinaram is responsible for the present-day rituals and beliefs of the cult. They believe he is a re-incarnation of Lord Shiva.
5. Panawave
Based in Japan, this exceedingly odd group is scared witless by the presence of electromagnetic waves in the modern world, blaming them for climate change, environmental destruction and other worldly ills. This took place in 1994, and there have been multiple publicity-attracting acts since, such as the 2003 attempted abduction of an Arctic seal which had appeared in a Tokyo river. The group reasoned that electromagnetic waves were the cause of this seal’s strange appearance, and that returning it to the Arctic would avert the coming doomsday.
keppay.deviantart
6. Universe People
Like Raelism, this is another alien-inspired religion. This Czech group bases its beliefs on extraterrestrial communications with founder Ivo Benda from 1997 onward. According to Benda, aliens have a fleet of ships orbiting the Earth at any given time, led by a being named Ashtar who watches the people of the Earth, ready to transport good and loyal followers to another dimension. Space tourism enthusiasts might be a huge chunk of their followers.
toptenfamous.com
7. The Church Of All Worlds
The largest neo-pagan religion in the world, the Church of All Worlds was set up in 1962 by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (nice name!) and his wife, Morning Glory (good lord!). Taking its name from Robert Heinlein’s Strange in a Strange Land, followers worship the Earth itself in the form of Gaea, as well as assorted gods from a range of other religious pantheons (mostly Ancient Greece). Oberon as head of the Church, goes by the title of ‘Primate’, while followers are known as ‘Waterkin’.
smosh.com
13 Religions From Around The World That Are Just Too Weird To Be Mainstream
