Whereas in many cultures, later patriarchal traditions – Christian, Confucian, or even Buddhist – buried older fertility cults, Japanese nature-worship never really disappeared.
But the Irishman also knew the dangers of emulation: "He's inimitable," he said of Chekhov to his Paris Review interviewer, "a person to read and admire and worship - but never, never, never to imitate".
"Targeting any place of worship should never be permitted, and we urge calm from all sides".
The diva you always wanted to worship, but never found until now".
But it made a lot of Sunnis, adherents to Islam's largest group, feel a lot worse.It is bad enough for orthodox Sunnis that Alevis, exponents of an easy-going form of Shia Islam, rarely worship (and never in mosques), do not bother to segregate the sexes, and keep eating during the Muslim fast of Ramadan.
One of Hinduism's defining factors is that the historic view of god, the nature worship and shamanism, never went away, so that god as currently worshiped exists simultaneously as symbol and archetype as well as literal embodiment.
"I will never worship any leadership again," he said.
The company was suddenly spamming me with a religious icon which, once I hovered over it, urged me to send a message to a place of worship I had never attended.
I would never worship a homophobic God.
