Examples of animism in the following topics:
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- Animism is the religious belief attributing a spiritual essence to natural phenomena, including animals, plants, and inanimate objects.
- Animism is the religious belief of attributing a spiritual essence to natural phenomena, including animals, plants, and sometimes inanimate objects.
- Examples of animism can be found in forms of Shinto, Serer, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Pantheism, Paganism, and Neopaganism.
- However, the common element among them is that they depict natural elements (animals, nature, earth) as spiritual entities.
- Other groups, most notably the ancient Egyptians, fused animal features with human limbs in visual depictions of their pantheon .
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- Sacrifice is the offering of the lives of animals or humans to God or gods as an act of propitiation or worship.
- Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing of an animal as part of a religion.
- In Islam, animal sacrifice is performed not only as an act of piety, but also as an act of charity, as a portion of the meat from the slaughtered animal is given to the poor.
- Sacrifices were either blood sacrifices (animals) or bloodless offerings (grain and wine).
- An animal sacrifice in Arabic is called Qurban.
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- The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer.
- Drawings of humans were rare and were usually schematic as opposed to the detailed and naturalistic images of animals.
- Discovered in 1940, the cave contains nearly two thousand figures, which can be grouped into three main categories—animals, human figures, and abstract signs.
- Hundreds of animal paintings have been catalogued, depicting at least thirteen different species—not only the familiar herbivores that predominate Paleolithic cave art, but also many predatory animals, such as cave lions, panthers, bears, and cave hyenas.
- The art also includes scenes that were complex for its time—animals interacting with each other.
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- Ivory carving is the carving of animal tooth or tusk, by using sharp cutting tools, either mechanically or manually.
- Ivory carving is the manual or mechanical carving of either animal tooth or tusk, wherein very fine detail can be achieved, and the surviving works often demonstrate intricate and complicated designs.
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- Pole sculptures in Eastern Africa are carved in human shapes and decorated with geometric forms, while the tops are carved with figures of animals, people, and various objects.
- Dogon masks often take the form of animals associated with their mythology, and their particular significance is known only by the highest ranking individuals.
- Nkisi were containers such as ceramics vessels, gourds, animal horns, or shells, made often in the shape of animals.
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- Likewise, the ship head post—representing a roaring beast—is five inches high with complicated surface ornamentation in the form of interwoven animals that twist and turn .
- This could involve various types of design such as bulls, dolphins, gold lions, drakes spewing fire out of their nose, human beings cast in gold and silver, and other unidentifiable animals cast in bronze metal.
- Typically, Viking brooches and buckles were connected together by bands of metal with the spaces between them forming an animal motif.
- For instance, the decoration of the wooden portal of the stave church located in Urnes, Norway is composed of abstract animal forms that tightly intertwine with flexible plant stalks in a spiral pattern .
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- Originating in the Nile River Valley, early African art depicts a variety of human and animal life executed using both rock-art methods of painting and engraving.
- The Bushmen depicted non-human animals, hunters, and half-human half-animal hybrids.
- From this complex of caves and rock shelters, seven stone plaques painted with figures of animals have been recovered that date from approximately 22,500 to 27,500 years ago.
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- Fiber arts refer to the use of plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects, prioritizing aesthetic value over utility.
- Broadly speaking, textile arts use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects.
- Traditionally, fiber is taken from plants or animals (for example, cotton comes from cotton seed pods, linen from flax stems, wool from sheep hair, and silk from the spun cocoons of silkworms).
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- As the style spread, the subject matter changed from strictly Near Eastern animals to scenes from Greek mythology and everyday life.
- In this region, floral and animal motifs are common, but the human figure appears in the work of the most prominent painters such as the Analatos Painter, the Mesogeia Painter, and the Polyphemos Painter.
- The bodies of men and animals were depicted in silhouette, though their heads were drawn in outline.
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- Wooden masks, which often take the form of animals, humans, or mythical creatures, are one of the most commonly found forms of traditional art in western Africa.
- Most African masks are made with wood and can also be decorated with ivory, animal hair, plant fibers, pigments, stones, and semi-precious gems.
- The wooden sculptures, which represent a highly stylized animal or human figure, are washed, re-oiled and offered sacrifices.
- Often carved in the shape of animals or humans, these "power objects" were believed to help aid in the communication with the spirit world.