Prehistoric Man Imagines a World Inhabited by Spirits
"The world is alive" You might say that was the central tenet of the earliest form of religion, one that we generally call "animism." Its a term that was coined in 1871 by pioneering british anthropologist Edward Burntt Tylor. He used it to describe what he concluded was one of the first spiritual intuitions, the belief among prehistoric people that all things, both living and inanimate, are inhabited by spirits."
What he was saying was that everything has a soul, everything with a heart beat and even sticks and stones.
For the primitive they believed that their were ways to please these other souls though rituals.
this worldwide view eventually turned into Polytheism. Even in the modern age we live in today their are still tribes and religions were their is this animistic way of looking at thing; looking at objects with a kind of respect due to the very basic belief that it may have a soul.
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