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[citation needed] and can be found in theism, panentheism, pantheism, deism, polytheism, animism, totemism, shamanism, 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.[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




See also





  • Earth religion

  • Faunus

  • Folk religion

  • Goddess worship (disambiguation)

  • Natural religion

  • Neopaganism

  • Pan

  • Pantheism

  • Panentheism

  • Shamanism

  • White magic

  • Wildlife totemization




References





  1. ^ A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics edited by Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith, p 305


  2. ^ The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 14 edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, pp 288-289










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