Animal worship - Classification by outward form

Animal worship is an ill-defined term, covering facts ranging from the worship of the real divine animal, commonly conceived as a "god-body," at one end of the scale, to respect for the bones of a slain animal or even the use of a respectful name for the living animal at the other end. Added to this, in many works on the subject we find reliance placed, especially for the African facts, on reports of travellers who were merely visitors to the regions on which they wrote. Animal cults may be classified in two ways: ...

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• Animal worship - Classification by outward form
• Animal worship - Classification by inward meaning
• Animal worship - Pastoral cults
• Animal worship - Hunting cults
• Animal worship - Dangerous or noxious animals
• Animal worship - Animals regarded as human souls or their embodiment
• Animal worship - Totemistic cults
• Animal worship - Cults of secret societies and individual cults of tutelary animals
• Animal worship - Cults of tree and vegetation spirits
• Animal worship - Cults of ominous animals
• Animal worship - Cults probably derivative of animals associated with certain deities
• Animal worship - Cults of animals used in magic
• Animal worship - Animal Cults
• Animal worship - Bear
• Animal worship - Bison and Cattle
• Animal worship - Crow/Raven
• Animal worship - Dog
• Animal worship - Elephant
• Animal worship - Fish
• Animal worship - Goat
• Animal worship - Hawk
• Animal worship - Horse
• Animal worship - Leopard
• Animal worship - Lion
• Animal worship - Lizard
• Animal worship - Mantis
• Animal worship - Monkey
• Animal worship - Rabbit
• Animal worship - Serpent
• Animal worship - Sheep
• Animal worship - Tiger
• Animal worship - Wolf

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Animal worship - Bear. The bear enjoys a large measure of respect from all cultures that come in contact with it, which shows itself in apologies and in festivals in its honour. The most notable ceremonies involving bears are found in East Asia. The traditional Ainu ceremony called Iomante, Kamui Omante or Kumamatsuri is considered the only surviving bear cult. A young bear is caught at the end of Winter and fed for some nine months. After receiving honours it is ritually killed and feasted u ...

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Animal worship, Animal worship - Classification by outward form, Animal worship - Classification by inward meaning, Animal worship - Pastoral cults, Animal worship - Hunting cults, Animal worship - Dangerous or noxious animals, Animal worship - Animals regarded as human souls or their embodiment, Animal worship - Totemistic cults, Animal worship - Cults of secret societies and individual cults of tutelary animals, Animal worship - Cults of tree and vegetation spirits, Animal worship - Cults of ominous animals, Animal worship - Cults probably derivative of animals associated with certain deities, Animal worship - Cults of animals used in magic, Animal worship - Animal Cults, Animal worship - Bear, Animal worship - Bison and Cattle, Animal worship - Crow/Raven, Animal worship - Dog, Animal worship - Elephant, Animal worship - Fish, Animal worship - Goat, Animal worship - Hawk, Animal worship - Horse, Animal worship - Leopard, Animal worship - Lion, Animal worship - Lizard, Animal worship - Mantis, Animal worship - Monkey, Animal worship - Rabbit, Animal worship - Serpent, Animal worship - Sheep, Animal worship - Tiger, Animal worship - Wolf

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Treating cults according to their meaning, which is not necessarily identical with the cause which first led to the deification of the animal in question, we can classify them under ten specific heads: Animal worship - Pastoral cults. The pastoral type falls into two sub-types, in which the species is spared and sometimes receives special honour at intervals in the person of an individual. (See Cattle, Buffalo, below.)< ...

See also:

Animal worship, Animal worship - Classification by outward form, Animal worship - Classification by inward meaning, Animal worship - Pastoral cults, Animal worship - Hunting cults, Animal worship - Dangerous or noxious animals, Animal worship - Animals regarded as human souls or their embodiment, Animal worship - Totemistic cults, Animal worship - Cults of secret societies and individual cults of tutelary animals, Animal worship - Cults of tree and vegetation spirits, Animal worship - Cults of ominous animals, Animal worship - Cults probably derivative of animals associated with certain deities, Animal worship - Cults of animals used in magic, Animal worship - Animal Cults, Animal worship - Bear, Animal worship - Bison and Cattle, Animal worship - Crow/Raven, Animal worship - Dog, Animal worship - Elephant, Animal worship - Fish, Animal worship - Goat, Animal worship - Hawk, Animal worship - Horse, Animal worship - Leopard, Animal worship - Lion, Animal worship - Lizard, Animal worship - Mantis, Animal worship - Monkey, Animal worship - Rabbit, Animal worship - Serpent, Animal worship - Sheep, Animal worship - Tiger, Animal worship - Wolf

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