nature worship
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8.8
- noun
- /ˈneɪtʃər ˈwɜrʃɪp/
:
culto a la naturaleza
- They were a wild variety of nature worship, "gods" worship; they sometimes included human sacrifice, but certainly they all held some sort of belief—belief in "other."
Examples
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I start to think that if he thought I was a real male Bruckner, he'd want me to take up the old man's pastimes and carry on the family tradition of death-defying nature worship.
Fiction book (2002) -
Various other authorities have linked the cross with nature worship and pagan sex rites.
Blog text (6) -
On the really believe part, there is an element here of pantheistic nature worship that lies just below the surface.
Blog text (30) -
Many indigenous cultures practice nature worship, honoring the spirits of the land, trees, and animals.
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The festival celebrated nature worship with rituals that praised the sun, rain, and earth's bounty.
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In their belief system, nature worship involves recognizing mountains and rivers as sacred entities.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'nature' (the natural world or its forces) combined with 'worship' (acts of devotion) yields 'worship of nature,' which a B1 learner who knows both words can infer. This noun phrase follows a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern (X + worship = worship of X), so the sense is immediately transparent and predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
Nature worship comes from old beliefs where people saw the sun, rivers, and trees as living gods and gave them gifts. So nature worship means a belief that worships nature as if it were a god.