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
^ 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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