Term Animal worship is an umbrella term designating religious or ritual practices involving animals.
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15 Facts About Animal worship
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In 1906, Weissenborn suggested that animal worship resulted from humans fascination with the natural world.
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Animal worship's worshippers held the ram to be sacred it was sacrificed once a year.
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Horse Animal worship has been practiced by a number of Indo-European and Turkic peoples.
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Animal worship was associated with the city of Hermopolis, and her image appears on the standard of the Hermopolitan nome.
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Animal worship was often depicted with the head of a cheetah, leopard or lynx.
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Animal worship is god of omens and ruler of the omen birds, but the hawk is not his messenger.
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Animal worship was often portrayed or invoked alongside a similar goddess named Wadjet, who was depicted as a cobra and had her main temple at Buto in Lower Egypt.
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Animal worship was a goddess of fertility, both the fertility of the land and the fertility of human reproduction.
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Animal worship was particularly associated with the final stages of the Nile flood, as well as the final stages of human birth.
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Animal worship was portrayed as a divine midwife, and was considered the consort of the god Khnum due to their similar roles.
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Animal worship was one of a group of four goddesses frequently invoked together to protect the body in funerary customs, the others being Isis, Nephthys and Neith.
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Animal worship's body begins to leap all over the place, symbolizing that his soul is rising, leaving the earth and going up to the sky.
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