By the way, I think that you and Varcht may be misusing the term 'animism' here. Belief systems like Shinto are animist, where you think things like rivers and

By the way, I think that you and Varcht may be misusing the term 'animism' here. Belief systems like Shinto are animist, where you think things like rivers and trees and rocks and the different winds are conscious and have souls.