animism

Oberlin College Press

This sacred power concentrates far more heavily in the deities, sacred individuals, places, or objects. This mana rules more than all creation and is not controlled by the gods or man. There is no sharp distinction among the two realities what happens in a single affects the other. Note that whilst these terms and questions need to have to be explained by scholars of animism, they do not will need to be explained to animistic persons who already relate to the planet with animistic sensibilities. Yukaghirs would not want to use scholarly terms such as immanence, life-globe, disenchantment, or diminution...