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place in nature worship

  • Charles Sprague Pearce: Religion
    In nature worship: Nature as a sacred totality

    … is described similarly, but as Wakan-Tanka it may refer to a collective unity of gods with great power (wakan). The manitou of the Algonquin is not, like wakan, merely an impersonal power that is inherent in all things of nature but is also the personification of numerous manitous (powers), with…

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