this is the coolest thing i’ve seen all day
:hex-moon:
My problem is their names are not always obvious so I don’t know how to find them
its possible there is some kind of loose cognitive aspect to whats going on (need to read more about the waving part) but it seems a little goofy to infer a belief system as human beings understand it. My guess would be they think moons are animals themselves and think waving the branch scares the bad moon away so the good moon can come and raise the tide.
waving an animal off so another animal that benefits you can take its place sounds like ritual spiritualism to you?
Believing the moon is a living thing you can influence with your actions does
When the two animals are both just the moon yeah it does. Edit:removed sun and moon
This is describing Animism, the dominant religious practice for most historical cultures.
“The elephant is the largest of them all, and in intelligence approaches the nearest to man. It understands the language of its country, it obeys commands, and it remembers all the duties which it has been taught. It is sensible alike of the pleasures of love and glory, and, to a degree that is rare among men even, possesses notions of honesty, prudence, and equity; it has a religious respect also for the stars, and a veneration for the sun and the moon.”
-Pliny, Natural History
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in intelligence approaches the nearest to man
it obeys commands
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