Nature worship
Nature worship is any of a variety of religious, spiritual and devotional practices that focus on the worship of the nature spirits considered to be behind the natural phenomena visible throughout nature.[1] A nature deity can be in charge of nature, a place, a biotope, 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, paganism and sarnaism. 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.[2]
Forms and aspects of nature worship
- Animal worship
- Fire worship
- Gaia philosophy
- Gavari
- Green Man
- Holy well
- Megalith
- Naturalistic pantheism
- Naturalistic spirituality
- Sacred groves
- Sacred herbs
- Sacred mountains
- Sky deity
- Standing stone
- Star worship
- Stone circle
- Thunder god
- Totem
- Tree worship
- Water deity
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See also
- Earth religion
- Faunus
- Folk religion
- Goddess worship (disambiguation)
- Natural religion
- Neopaganism
- Pan
- Pantheism
- Panentheism
- Shamanism
- White magic
- Wildlife totemization
References
- A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics edited by Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith, p 305
- The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 14 edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, pp 288-289
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