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	Animal Worship - LoveToKnow 1911
		ANIMAL WORSHIP, 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.
		Animal cults may be classified in two ways: (A) according to their outward form; (B) according to their inward meaning, which may of course undergo transformations.
		The rattlesnake was worshipped in the Natchez temple of the sun; and the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl was a serpent-god.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Animal_Worship (2567 words)

	Animism - LoveToKnow 1911
		Powers of reasoning are not denied to animals nor even speech; the silence of the brute creation may be put down to their superior cunning.
		With the rise of species, deities and the cult of individual animals, the path towards anthropomorphization and polytheism is opened and the respect paid to animals tends to lose its strict animistic character.
		Just as a process of syncretism has given rise to cults of animal gods, tree spirits tend to become detached from the trees, which are thenceforward only their abodes; and here again animism has begun to pass into polytheism.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Animism (1716 words)

	Animal Worship
		Animal worship pure and simple had declined among the Celts of historic times, and animals were now regarded mainly as symbols or attributes of divinities.
		Animal worship is connected with totemism, and certain things point to its existence among the Celts, or to the existence of conditions out of which totemism was elsewhere developed.
		Perhaps the belief in lucky or unlucky animals, or in omens drawn from their appearance, may be based on old totem beliefs or in beliefs in the divinity of the animals.
	www.worldspirituality.org /animal-worship.html (3219 words)

	Animal Worship
		(iii.) The cult of dangerous animals is due (a) to the fear that the soul of the slain beast may take vengeance on the hunter, (b) to a desire to placate the rest of the species.
		(iv.) Animals are frequently regarded as the abode, temporary or permanent, of the souls of the dead, sometimes as the actual souls of the dead.
		Buffalo.—The Todas of S. India abstain from the flesh of their domestic animal, the buffalo; but once a year they sacrifice a bull calf, which is eaten in the forest by the adult males.
	www.worldspirituality.org /animalworship.html (2426 words)

	Old Irish Religions: Animal Worship
		That animal reverence, to say the least of it, continued not in Ireland alone, but even in Scotland, among those of the same race, to quite modern times, is manifest from the fierce denunciation of certain practices relating thereto.
		The animal is prominent on the Cross of Drosten, Forfarshire.
		Animals were known to be offered by Irish and Scotch down to the last century, and it is recorded that a calf was publicly burnt in 1800 by Cornishmen to stop a murrain.
	www.libraryireland.com /articles/AnimalWorshipBonwickDruids/index.php (2121 words)

	Animal worship - The Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia
		Animals are frequently regarded as the abode, temporary or permanent, of the souls of the dead, sometimes as the actual souls of the dead.
		The rattlesnake was worshipped in the Natchez temple of the sun and the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl was a winged serpent-god.
		Snake worship refers to to the high status of snakes in Hindu mythology.Over a large part of India there are carved representations of cobras (nagas) or stones as substitutes.
	paganpedia.mind-n-magick.com /wiki/index.php?title=Animal_worship (3246 words)

	MacCulloch's Religion of the Ancient Celts: Animal Worship
		When the animal was buried with the dead, it may have been as a sacrifice to the ghost or to the god of the underworld.
		Cæsar says they bred these animals for amusement, but this reason assigned by him is drawn from his knowledge of the breeding of rare animals by rich Romans as a pastime, since he had no knowledge of the breeding of sacred animals which were not eaten--a common totemic or animal cult custom.
		The cult of animals was also connected with totemic usage, though at a later stage this cult was replaced by that of anthropomorphic divinities, with the older divine animals as their symbols, sacrificial victims, and the like.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /otherworld/druidism/macculloch/animalworship.htm (5181 words)

	Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament. § 1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament. Frazer, Sir James ...
		Thus the primitive worship of animals conforms to two types, which are in some respects the converse of each other.
		In both types of worship the animal is revered on account of some benefit, positive or negative, which the savage hopes to receive from it.
		In the former worship the benefit comes either in the positive shape of protection, advice, and help which the animal affords the man, or in the negative shape of abstinence from injuries which it is in the power of the animal to inflict.
	www.bartleby.com /196/130.html (1410 words)

	Animal worship
		Animal worship is a cult that appears in many ancient (nature) religions.
		It is partly based on the fact that animals possess qualities that humans lack or have in lesser measures, such as strength or speed, and which inspire fear.
		It is feared, yet in many cultures it is held sacred; it has healing properties or is associated with healing (it is the symbol of the healer god Asclepius) and it is a symbol of immortality (the shedding and renewing of the skin).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/a/animal_worship.html (243 words)

	vickipedia: ANIMALS, WORSHIP OF
		The case of an ancestral soul, worshiped as incarnate in an animal body, thus forms a link between manes-worship and beast-worship; and we find this connection otherwise in the veneration of a particular species of animal by a particular family, clan, or tribe.
		This animal then becomes an object of worship, and its skin is carried about the person as a fetich, and its likeness painted on the body, or sculptured on the weapons.
		It is evident, however, that although some animals may have received a preference, yet all had a share in the superstitious reverence of primitive peoples; and this broad universality of their worship militates against any other theory of its origin, except that based on the theory of the transmigration of souls.
	vickipedia.livejournal.com /14065.html (729 words)

	Myth and Legend ch. 5
		A particular animal might be looked upon by one tribe as an incarnation of their deity, and by another as the incarnation of their Satan.
		These were the animal forms of the moon god and of the demon who devoured the moon--the animal form of the love god and the thwarted rebel god; they also symbolized growth and decay--Osiris was growth, and Set symbolized the slaughter of growth: he killed the corn god.
		That this bull represented the animal which obtained mastery of the herd is suggested by the popularity of bull fights at the ancient sports; there are several representations on the ancient tombs of Egyptian peasants, carrying staves, urging bulls to battle one against another.
	www.earth-history.com /Egypt/Myth/eml05.htm (4158 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Idolatry
		The well-meant but ill-directed worship never became the religion of Israel; it was never more than a temporary invasion of extraneous religious practices, often deeply overlaying the national religion, but never completely supplanting it.
		The Lamb that taketh away the sins of the world, the dove which represents the Holy Ghost, the animal emblems of the Evangelists, the dragon of St. Michael and of St. George of England, not to mention others, are familiar to Christians.
		Where Monotheism rules, the animal, alive or figured, is but an emblem or a symbol; among untutored savages, like the Red Indians, it is the bearer of the tribe's tutelary spirit and the object of various degrees of worship; in decaying religions — e.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07636a.htm (2616 words)

	ANIMAL WORSHIP - Online Information article about ANIMAL WORSHIP
		spirits; (viii.) cults of ominous animals; (ix.) cults, probably derivative, of animals associated with certain deities; (x.) cults of animals used in magic.
		wood which are worshipped after the death of a member of the family and burnt after a thousand days.
		bread and worshipped it as the representative of the Saviour.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ANC_APO/ANIMAL_WORSHIP.html (3725 words)

	Worship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Worship usually refers to specific acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion, typically directed to a supernatural being such as a god or goddess.
		Religious worship may be performed individually, in informally organized groups, or as part of an organized service with a designated leader (as in a church, synagogue, temple, or mosque).
		In its older sense in the English language of worthiness or respect (Anglo-Saxon worthscripe), worship may sometimes refer to actions directed at members of higher social classes (such as lords or monarchs) or to particularly esteemed persons (such as a lover).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Worship (595 words)

	Fantasy-Ireland's Guide to Celtic Animal Symbols
		Along with this fascination and almost worship of animal symbols, the Celts revered Nature itself, be it in the form of plants, animals, or elements.
		Celtic animal symbolism arises from an abundant body of lore, tale, and song and draw upon a mythology as old as that of Greece or Rome.
		To understand Celtic animal symbolism is to understand the art and what the artist was attempting to bring across in his work.
	www.fantasy-ireland.com /Celtic-animal-symbols.html (1237 words)

	World Religion - Animal Worship
		The Yakuts of Siberia worship the bear as their " beloved uncle." In many cases deities are supposed to be embodied in animals.
		Of course, where a transmigration of souls is believed in, the animal may be thought to be a reincarnation of an ancestor, and may be worshipped as such.
		The worship of such animals as the bull Apis, the bird Ibis, the hawk, the crocodile, etc., by the ancient Egyptians is familiar to everyone.
	www.world-religion.org /articles/a/a309.php (322 words)

	The Birth of Gods
		At all of these locations, animal burials, typically consisting of gazelles and dogs (or jackals), and more rarely cattle and rams, have been found, and the care with which these animals were buried and provided with grave goods evidences a cult of sacred animals or at least of divine powers in animal form.
		The idea that the divine might be manifest in animal form is a vital prerequisite for the animals which are shown acting in human ways and which are the major representations of the Egyptian gods at the end of the Predynastic Period.
		Hathor, for example, appears to have been one of the earliest deities to be given anthropomorphic form, but even she retained the horns of her sacred animal, the cow, and was frequently depicted in bovine form millennia after her appearance.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/birthofgods.htm (1998 words)

	Detail Page
		Amulets in the form of animals were placed with human burials to provide protection and a food supply for the deceased, while animal gods were presented on the painted pottery of the Nagada II period.
		The reasons behind the deification of animals in ancient Egypt are not clear: Possibly some were worshiped because they assisted mankind, while others, who were feared (such as the jackals who ransacked the cemeteries), were deified in an attempt to propitiate them.
		It is evident, however, that animal and fetish forms were regarded as symbols through which the divine power could manifest itself and that animal worship continued to be extremely important throughout the historic period.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAE0106 (325 words)

	Animal worship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		All animals, especially snakes and birds, eventually were venerated by early cultures who adopted prayers, rituals, and built temples in which to worship them.
		To the Greeks the sacred animal was the eagle of Zeus.
		Such are examples that there has always existed a belief in animal transformation or lycanthropy, i.e., in folklore, the ability to take on the form and characteristics of a wolf.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/a/animal_worship.htm (319 words)

	Worship
		Worship is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		She was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, wilderness, chastity, and childbirth.
		She was worshipped as a fertility/childbirth goddess in many places since, according to some myths, she assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin.
	www.globaloneness.com /worship (1093 words)

	SPIRIT GUIDES - Part II
		As a solitary animal who hunts and lives alone much of its life, the lynx often comes to those who are loners by desire or design.
		The rabbit is a fearful animal and expends much of its energy nervously twitching its large ears from side to side listening for potential threats, quickly hopping from place to place and then suddenly running away at lightening speed.
		If a wolf or wolves have entered your physic, you are fortunate to have an animal spirit to knows the importance of communication and one that will find many ways to make their messages know to you.
	www.manataka.org /page236.html (11224 words)

	Egyptian religion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Occasionally a god was a composite of various animals, such as Taurt, who had the head of a hippopotamus, the back and tail of a crocodile, and the claws of a lion.
		Osiris was especially important as king and judge of the dead, but he was identified as well with the waters of the Nile, with the grain yield of the earth, with the moon, and even with the sun.
		The worship of Ra, the great sun-god, chief of the cosmic deities, was perhaps more closely related to the fate of the royal house than to that of the people, but his cult was nevertheless one of the most important in ancient Egypt.
	www.bartleby.com /65/eg/Egyptn-rel.html (1644 words)

	role of animals in egyptian worship
		In animal cults, we encounter the ability of Egyptian gods to extend their existence almost endlessly so that they could be manifest not just in one ibis or crocodile, but in all ibises or all crocodiles.
		The burial of sacred animals were frequently paid for by pilgrims during visits to the temples at festivals or when seeking divine blessings, and this must have created a considerable priestly industry for animal mummification.
		One wonders whether these animals were kept for this specific reason, and to profit the temple, for while only one temple animal was kept at any one time, which received a cult, this second class of sacred animal was kept in large numbers and really received no cult.
	www.ipoaa.com /role_of_animals_in_egyptian_worship.htm (1008 words)

	ANIMAL SPIRIT GUIDES
		Likewise, by meditating on various mammals, a path is opened to the mammalian aspects of the human psychic corresponding to the thalamus and the hypothalamus in the brain associated with the emotions, a sense of community, and instinctual wisdom.
		As we learn about animals, it is important to know their symbolic meaning as a point of reference and comparison, however we must keep in mind that symbols are cultural in nature and differ from place to place, from time to time and may not reflect the nature of the animal as you feel it.
		Various types of animals, especially snakes and birds, were held in great esteem by early peoples around the world and many cultures adopted prayers, rituals and built temples in which to worship them.
	www.manataka.org /page291.html (4333 words)

	Animal Worship - Articles from The Fellowship of Life: a Christian-based vegetarian group founded in 1973
		Animal rights, although important, were still a secondary concern for the young Andrew Linzey, in contrast to his conviction today that the struggle of humans to learn to live at peace with the rest of the world is the moral issue of our time.
		On the keeping of pets, for instance, Lord Soper sees a place for companion animals, as long as they are allowed to live their own lives, but Andrew Linzey is sceptical.
		Both men make a clear distinction between proper use and exploitation of animals: "I think there is a place for an animal as a servant, but there is no place for an animal as a slave and there is certainly no place for an animal merely to provide pleasure," says Lord Soper.
	www.all-creatures.org /fol/art-animal.html (1185 words)

	"Animal Gods"
		It is absolutely bogus to say that the worship of animals is due to some primitive strain in Egyptian religion.
		It seems to me that the terror of animal strength, or the strong bond the mutual dependence of man and beast (in the case of cattle cults, for instance) explains animal worship.
		But in Egypt the animal as such, irrespective of its specific nature, seems to possess religious significance, and the significance is so great that even the speculation of later times rarely dispensed with animal forms when referring to the Neteru.
	www.angelfire.com /falcon/wily/animalgods.html (836 words)

	The Animal Cults of Ancient Egypt
		There is evidence of animal cults that dates back to at least the fourth millennium BC in Egypt, including predynastic ritual burials of animals such as gazelles, dogs, cattle, monkey and rams at sights such as Badari, Naqada, Maadi and Heliopolis.
		The Apis bull of Memphis, for example, had to be a fl bull with a white triangle on its forehead, a crescent moon on its chest and another on its flanks, as well as having fl and white in its tail.
		Other animals included the ram of Mendes, which was considered the manifestation of Osiris-Re, and the ram of Elephantine which was associated with Khnum.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/animalcults.htm (1049 words)

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