Their connections include the spirits of ancestors, the sun, the moon, and animal worship.

The origins of animal worship have been the subject of many theories.

In 1906, Weissenborn suggested that animal worship resulted from man's natural curiosity.

There is a woman's lip-extending plate from Sudan, said to be linked to animal worship.

Their religious beliefs include animism, animal worship and shamanism.

Animal worship during the Upper Paleolithic intertwined with hunting rites.

Scholars hold, that animal worship of buffaloes and serpents are clearly attested in the ancient Elamite religious system.

Animal worship of the kind found in the Egyptian Apis cult is unknown in Greece.

Animal worship (or zoolatry) refers to religious rituals involving animals, such as the glorification of animal deities, or animal sacrifice.

A number of archeologists propose that Middle Paleolithic societies such as Neanderthal societies may also have practiced the earliest form of totemism or animal worship.

The classical author Diodorus explained the origin of animal worship by recalling the myth in which the gods, supposedly threatened by giants, hid under the guise of animals.

The four of them travel to the Orchard of Duir, a place where in legend, the Green spirit (whom many of the woodland animals worship) planted seven trees before winter came.

The simple cult of the shepherds, consisting of a few severely plain ceremonies, transmitted from generation to generation, was confronted with the insidious, coarsely sensual animal worship of the Egyptians.

Animal worship is also evidenced, but not the worship of the Mother Goddess that is evidenced in other Harappan cities-experts consider this a sign of the existence of diversity in religious traditions.

A claim that evidence was found for Middle Paleolithic animal worship c 70,000 BC originates from the Tsodilo Hills in the African Kalahari desert has been denied by the original investigators of the site.

The relative scarcity of hyena depictions in Paleolithic rock art has been theorised to be due to the animal's lower rank in the animal worship hierarchy; the spotted hyena's appearance was likely unappealing to Ice Age hunters, and it was not sought after as prey.

Animal worship (or zoolatry) refers to religious rituals involving animals, such as the glorification of animal deities, or animal sacrifice.

Some scholars sustain that the zoomorphic motifs of that particular time do not represent any kind of zoolatry of the Geto-Dacians.