The Greeks maintained, until late in their civilization, an almost animistic idea that the statues are in some sense alive.

Some argue for the prevalence of pagan elements within the poem, claiming that the idea of a talking tree is animistic, recalling the way in which pagan elements incorporate spirits and other fantastical elements.

Clinomorphism, whilst being a linguistic behaviour which exemplifies particular " errors " and deliberate misrepresentations, may also be a natural tendency in the sense that it is potentially an understandable consequence of the need to abbreviate or to simply use a clinomorphism as a metaphor to convey an otherwise difficult to describe idea, in much the same way as anthropomorphism might be ( where we attribute the characteristics or presence of a mind to inanimate objects, purely for ease of description of a particular phenomenon, rather than as a result of holding a genuinely animistic or pantheistic belief ).

In many animistic world views found in hunter-gatherer cultures, the human being is often regarded as on a roughly equal footing with other animals, plants, and natural forces.

It is clear that widespread respect was paid to animals as the abode of dead ancestors, and much of the cults to dangerous animals is traceable to this principle ; though there is no need to attribute an animistic origin to it.

An entirely different class of ideas, also termed animistic, is the belief in the world soul anima mundi, held by philosophers such as Schelling and others.

* Shinto, the traditional religion of Japan, is highly animistic.

Ex nihilo creation is found in creation stories from ancient Egypt, the Rig Veda, the Bible and the Quran, and many animistic cultures in Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America.

The notion of elves thus appears similar to the animistic belief in spirits of nature and of the deceased, common to nearly all human religions ; this is also true for the Old Norse belief in dísir, fylgjur and vörðar (" follower " and " warden " spirits, respectively ).

Prehistoric men may have painted animals to " catch " their soul or spirit in order to hunt them more easily or the paintings may represent an animistic vision and homage to surrounding nature, or they may be the result of a basic need of expression that is innate to human beings, or they could have been for the transmission of practical information.

The difference between modern Shinto and the ancient animistic religions is mainly a refinement of the kami-concept, rather than a difference in definitions.

In Arabic superstition, the qarînah () is a spirit similar to the succubus, with origins possibly in ancient Egyptian religion or in the animistic beliefs of pre-Islamic Arabia ( see Arabian mythology ).

It is distinct from the various traditional animistic religions in the interiors of these same countries and is the main origin for religions of similar name found among the African Diaspora in the New World such as Haitian Vodou, the Vudu of Puerto Rico, Candomblé Jejé in Brazil ( which uses the term Vodum ), Louisiana Voodoo and Santería in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

However Robert Lenoble has shown that the principle of unity in the work is a diatribe against magical and divinatory arts, cabalism, animistic and pantheistic philosophies.

The Midewiwin society is a secretive animistic religion, requiring an initiation, and then progressing to four levels of practitioners, called " degrees ".

Like the Midewiwin, the Waabanowin is a secretive animistic religion, requiring an initiation.

It is typically understood as the power or the sacredness that resides in everything, similar to many animistic and pantheistic beliefs.

Of these, most are of the Therevada Sect ( ເຖຣະວາດ, เถรวาท, ) although historical influences of Mahayana Buddhism remain and it is the main sect of Vietnamese and Chinese minorities that have settled amongst the Lao and it has become syncretic with animistic practices.

* a syncretic religion that arose in Tibet during the 10th and 11th centuries, with strong shamanistic and animistic traditions, that is often regarded by scholars as " an unorthodox form of Buddhism ;"

The creation of harvest wreaths in Europe can be traced back to ancient times, and is associated with animistic spiritual beliefs.

This is one of the tribes which resisted Muslim conversion and maintained a highland animistic culture.

The official Kozakuran state religion is known as the faith of the Eight Million Gods ( an analog for Japanese Shinto ), which involved worship of a host of animistic nature deities and spirits including a sun goddess and the Emperor of Kozakura himself, who was believed to have descended from a divine ancestry related to the sun goddess.

There is also an undercurrent of traditional animistic beliefs especially in rural areas.

Some Western schools of thought were animistic or pantheistic, such as the classical Greek tradition, while later religious beliefs, influenced by the monotheism of the Abrahamic religions, portrayed divinity as more transcendent.

These myths tend to emphasize creative forces as animistic in nature rather than sexual, and depict the sacred as the elemental and integral component of the natural world.

They practiced a form of animistic pantheism, much of which has survived in the form of folklore and numerous myths.

These myths were based on animistic beliefs.

These stories reflected the animistic ' folk belief ' that preserved earlier elements deriving from the Viking Era but strongly influenced by the medieval Christian cosmology of Germany, Britain and France.

The Cebuanos revered the image of the Santo Niño as Bathala ( an animistic god of creation ).

With some improvements made on such as animistic form of religion, the new Shinkyo belief subsequently emerged in the primeval society.

Modern Shinto began as the various ancient animistic traditional spirituality of Japan, which only became an institutionalized spirituality much later as a result of efforts to separate out influences of other religions brought into Japan from abroad.

It was an animistic culture which existed prior the introduction of Buddhism.

They have a shamanistic and animistic belief system which stresses respect for the land and its resources.

The belief in such powers originates in the animistic religion which existed before the Buddhism was adopted and merged into the traditional religion.

Prior to the advent of Chinese civilization and world religions in the region generally known today as East Asia including the territorial boundaries of modern-day China ; tribal totemistic and animistic religious practices were the way in which prayers, sacrifices or offerings were communicated to the spiritual world by groups or mediatory individuals such as shamans.

Nowadays most of the Qiang follow it, a system which is mainly animistic and pantheistic, focusing on the worship of nature.

The ǃKung people of southern Africa are both animistic and animatistic, which means they believe in both personifications and impersonal forces.

Jivaroans, of which the Achuar are a sub-group, ascribe to a particular form of the pan-Amazonian animistic cosmological phenomenon known as ' Amazonian perspectivism ,' in which many animals and plants are understood to possess human souls, although their bodily appearance is different.

Sufism is also marked by religious forms taken over from the pre-Islamic, animistic religions of the Berber population which orthodox Islam seeks to repress-belief in spirits, witchcraft, fortune-telling, the efficacy of amulets, etc.

This is in imitation of historical Norse paganism, which had strong animistic tendencies, as reflected in sagas such as that of a wizard who goes to Iceland in whale-shape to see if it can be invaded, who is attacked by land-spirits while going on shore, and is forced to flee.

A bakemono's true form may be an animal such as a fox ( kitsune ), a raccoon dog ( tanuki ), a badger ( mujina ), a transforming cat ( bakeneko ), the spirit of a plant — such as a kodama, or an inanimate object which may possess a soul in Shinto and other animistic traditions.