Long before any ism or religion existed in humanity's consciousness, animist practice was the embodied experience of living beings.
Animism is not a theory, a philosophy, or an idea. It was simply how things were. A common understanding - across the entire world, for all of time.
The fabric offerings tied to a tree mark offerings to a being of the landscape.
Olkhon Island, Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation. Roberto Quijada, CC BY-NC
Animism is not a religion one can convert to but rather a label used for worldviews and practices. It identifies and describes acknowledge relationships between nature and the animal world. A driving force and influence over humans and a way of being that needed to be respected.
