Astronists

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Cometan is the founder of a belief system which he named Astronism in 2018 and began self-identifying as an Astronist which denotes a person following Astronism or anything relating to Astronism.

For other uses, see Astronist.

Not to be confused with an astronaut, astronomer, or an astrologer.

Astronists (/əsˈtrɒnɪst/) are people who follow or adhere to Astronism, either as their religion, their philosophy, or their political ideology. Astronists may also be referred to as Astroners, Astrians, Astronians, or Astrosophers. Astronist is the demonym for the Astronist philosophy and religion, however, those adhering to Astronist political ideology are more commonly referred to as Astronarians.

While there are diverse interpretations of Astronism which sometimes conflict, Astronists are united by their belief in the significance of the astronomical world as a source of spirituality, guidance, destiny, and existential purpose.

The term "Astronist" used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Astronism or Astronist denominations, persons, beliefs or practices, or in a proverbial sense "all that is astronomical in orientation." It means that a person possesses beliefs, convictions, or engages in practices that are centred on the astronomical world.

In the beginning of Astronism, all Astronists were what are known as "Institutionists" whom are Astronists that believe that Astronism should be governed by the Astronist Institution as the religion and philosophy's dispenser.

Etymology

The term Astronist is form by the prefix astro- or astron- and the suffix -ist meaning "follower of the astronomical". The first recorded use of the term was in 1999 by Stephen Livesey Ashworth, recorded as the founder of Astronist Publishing at Oxford in a November 1999 edition of The Bookseller. Ashworth has since self-identified as an Astronist in both his book publications and online including his website Astronist.co.uk.

Cometan first used the term Astronist to refer to his religious identity five years after the concept of Astronism was initially ideated by him. The date given to the naming Cometan's religion as Astronism (and therefore giving rise to the term Astronist) is 17th October 2018 according to the Astronist Institution and the Astronist Historiographical Record. Before that date, Astronism was referred to as Millettism and a follower of Millettism was called a Millettarian. After being troubled by the inaptronymity of the appellation Millettism, Cometan decided to rename the entire philosophy and religion and all related terms to approximate Astronism.

Definition

According to the Astronist Institution, the current definition of Astronist is:

Astronists are individual persons, organisations or whole groups that see the astronomical world, both its observation and exploration, as the central source of their spirituality, existential meaning and personal guidance, and as a result, such persons or organisations are seeking to fulfil their astronalities and to attain astrosis.

Translations

Here is a list of translations for the term Astronist:

Language	Demonym	Script
Afrikaans	Astronis
Albanian	Astronist
Amharic	Astronisiti
Arabic	Astaruni
Armenian	Astronist
Azerbaijani	Astronist
Basque	Astronista
Belarusian	Astranist
Bengali	Astrāna	অন্তরীক্ষধর্মী
Bosnian	Astronista
Bulgarian	Astronistki
Catalan	Astronista
Cebuano	Astronista
Chichewa	Wachiastron
Chinese	Astrojiào tú
Corsican	Astronista
Croatian	Astronistički
Czech	Astronista
Danish	Astronist
Dutch	Astronist
English	Astronist
Esperanto	Astronisto
Estonian	Astronistlik
Filipino	Astronista
Finnish	Astronalainen
French	Astroniste
Frisian	Astronist
Galician	Astronísta
Georgian	Astronist'i
German	Astronist
Greek	Astronistís
Gujarati
Haitian Creole	Astronis
Hausa	Astronurci
Hawaiian	Astronor
Hebrew	עסתרוניסת
Hindi	Astronist	अन्तरीक्षधर्मी
Hmong
Hungarian	Astronista
Icelandic	Astronisti
Igbo
Indonesian	Astronis
Irish
Italian	Astronista
Japanese	Asutoronyōto
Javanese	Astronis
Kannada	Kāmeṭanisṭ
Kazakh	Astronïst
Khmer	Astronis
Korean	Cheonmunsa
Kurdish (Kurmanji)	Astronîst
Kyrgyz	Astronist ayal
Lao
Latin	Astronistarum
Latvian	Astronistu
Lithuanian	Astronistas
Luxembourgish	Astronistesch
Macedonian	Astronist
Malagasy	Astronist
Malay	Astronis
Malayalam	Jyēātiśāstrajñan
Maltese	Astronisti
Maori	Pūtimana
Marathi
Mongolian	Astronist
Myanmar (Burmese)	Aarstronbharsar
Nepali	Khagōlavid
Norwegian	Astronist
Pashto
Persian
Polish	Astronista
Portuguese	Astronísta
Punjabi	Khagōlasaṭa
Romanian	Astroniste
Russian	Astronskiy
Samoan	Astronist
Scots Gaelic	Astronaich
Serbian	Astronista / Astronistički
Sesotho	Astronist
Shona	Astronist
Sindhi	عالم پرست
Sinhala
Slovak	Astronista / Astronistické
Slovenian	Astronistično
Somali	Astronist
Spanish	Astronista
Sundanese	Astronis
Swahili	Wanajimu
Swedish	Astronistiska
Tajik	Astronist
Tamil
Telugu	Asṭrānisṭ
Thai
Turkish	Astronist
Ukrainian	Astronist
Urdu
Uzbek	Astronist
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish	Astronist
Yoruba
Zulu	i-astronist

Demographics

According to the Astronist Institution 2020 report, there are 4.27 million Astronists around the world with at least one Astronist recorded in every country and territory.

See also

• Astrodom
• Astronist Institution
• Astronist population growth
• Conversion to Astronism
• Cultural Astronist
• Early Astronism
• List of Astronist denominations by number of members
• List of Astronist denominations
• List of Astronist synonyms
• Lists of Astronists

Bibliography

Astronism

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