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Nature worship   /nˈeɪtʃər wˈərʃəp/   Listen
Nature worship

noun
1.
A system of religion that deifies and worships natural forces and phenomena.





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"Nature worship" Quotes from Famous Books



... the ancient Hawaiians was very similar to that of other Polynesians. It consisted in a great measure of nature worship. To their minds all the powers of nature, especially those that are mysterious and terrible, were conceived of as living and spiritual beings. Thus the volcano, the thunder, the whirlwind, the meteor and the shark were feared as being either the embodiment ...
— The Hawaiian Islands • The Department of Foreign Affairs
... shall we call this of the Hopi? Seeing the importance of the sun in their rites, one is inclined to say Sun Worship; but clouds, rain, springs, streams enter into the idea, and we say Nature Worship. A study of the great Snake Cult suggests Snake Worship; but their reverence for and communion with the spirits of ancestors gives to this complex religious fabric of the Hopi a strong quality of Ancestor Worship. It ...
— The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi • Hattie Greene Lockett


Words linked to "Nature worship" :   religion, faith, religious belief


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