All living beings in the world live depending on nature, likewise earlier man also led a life harmony with nature. Nature appeared as an enigma to man. Natural objects such thunder, lightning, rain, flood, volcano, darkness and sun are mysterious it instilled fear among Man, who fears about nature its disasters starts worshiping them gods. The worship that this way is based faith common all hum...

Early Interaction with Buddhism (552–710): Between 538 and 552, new religions came to Japan from China and Korea. The arrival of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism initiated new dynamics of religious interaction. In early Shinto, each community probably worshipped its local deity according to provincial custom. But under the influence of other faiths, the adherents of Shinto gradually organized...

India is an ancient nation with diverse cultures, which are articulated and depicted through different tribes, communities, castes, ethnic groups. Kabbaliga (Koli) its associated communities one of the tribal groups found across subcontinent under names. Culturally religiously, they Hindus traditional beliefs systems practices. They worship deities, saints, philosophers, personalities from gene...

In the Andes, prominent mountains are revered as earthly spirits that protect, but may also punish, their human constituents. These apu were often linked to distant ancestors and are considered the most important local deities. During the phase of the earliest highland Andean expansive states (AD 600–1000), the Wari and Tiwanaku utilized mountain worship as a means of establishing hegemony over...