Nature worship
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"Historians of religion usually assume that religions developed upwards from some common germ which they call Totemism, Animism, Solar or Astral Myth, Nature Worship in general or Agrarian in particular, or some other name implying a systematic interpretation of the facts."--Cyril Charles Martin |
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Nature worship describes a variety of religious, spiritual and devotional practices that focus on the worship of natural phenomenon which are attributed to the continuation of the life process. A nature deity can be in charge of nature, the biosphere, the cosmos or the universe. Nature worship is often considered the primitive source of modern religious beliefs and can be found in theism, panentheism, pantheism, deism, polytheism, animism, totemism, shamanism and paganism. Common to most forms of nature worship is a spiritual focus on the individual's connection and influence on some aspects of the natural world and reverence towards it.
Forms and aspects of nature worship
- Fire worship
- Tree worship
- Animal worship
- Star worship
- Sacred mountains
- Sacred groves
- Sacred herbs
- Holy well
- Megalith
- Standing stone
- Stone circle
- Thunder god
- Totem
- Sky deity
- Water deity
- Naturalistic pantheism
- Naturalistic spirituality
- Gaia philosophy
- Green Man
See also
- Naturphilosophie
- The sacred way
- Folk religion
- Pantheism
- Shamanism
- Earth religion
- Neopaganism
- White magic
- Goddess worship (disambiguation)
- Natural religion (disambiguation)
- Wildlife totemization
