Animism ***
I, a strictly feminine spirit, master of garden soil and pottery clay, whose corporeality is manifest in the deadly black coral snake with a mouth also smaller to bite humans. The inner sphere is the human household, wherein the souls and spirits come collectively in a special technique of human expertise, vision, and imagery. Power flows downward through the spheres, and handle of energy is exercised upward from inner to outer spheres. Extra elaborate animistic religions, such as Shinto, developed…