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I would say an animist phase rather. It's the mental development level of attributing personality and intention to everything, including inanimate objects. Though I have to wonder if the sentiment of having to ask permission from a mountain to borrow a rock, leads to more or less respect for the...

The passage I posted there is from the first book of the LoTR trilogy.

The Old Forest in LoTR was both of the above. All of the half-awake trees had fallen under the control of one old and cunning willow-tree. Or rather, the evil spirit that inhabited said tree.

As they listened, they began to understand the lives of the Forest, apart from themselves, indeed to feel themselves as the strangers where all other things were at home. Moving constantly in and out of his talk was Old Man Willow, and Frodo learned now enough to content him, indeed more than...

The Mongols tended to convert to the religions of the people they conquered.

"Shamanism/Buddhism"? Isn't that conflating two very different things? Even "Shamanism" by itself is a very loose classification.