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From {{inherit|ryn|ryn-o|rī́ɣas|t=Riyan person}}, a borrowing from {{borrow|ryn|rad-o|rījø̄r|t=Riyan person, worshipper of Riya}}. The Radestrian exonym was derived as such by the Radestrian belief that the Riyan people worshipped a sky deity, which they likened to the Radestrian thunder goddess {{w|Riya}}. This idea lasted until the mid-18th century when prominent Riyan historians began to come to different conclusions about the nature of ancient Riyan worship. According to modern scholarship, it is thought that the old cultural idea of ancient Riyans as sky-worshippers was by misattribution and more representative of other minority groups in Radestria.