Nature worship
Nature worship is any of 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.[1] 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.[2]
Forms and aspects of nature worship
- Animal worship
- Fire worship
- Gaia philosophy
- 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
- Atheistic naturalism
- Tree worship
- Water deity
See also
- Earth religion
- Faunus
- Folk religion
- Goddess worship (disambiguation)
- Natural religion (disambiguation)
- Neopaganism
- Pan
- Pantheism
- The sacred way
- Shamanism
- White magic
- Wildlife totemization
- Category:Sacred sites