I was thinking the same. My understanding is that neopaganism is more about the general process with which people come up with mythic significance for natural phenomena than any specific pagan myth. There certainly seems to be a case for humans doing that spontaneously in a state of nature, though it’s hard to tell exactly how wide the variation would be.
The closest the human universals list has are “belief in supernatural/religion” and “weather control (attempts to)”. So everyone ends up trying to magic up nature into doing stuff, but they’re not necessarily reverent about it like the neopagans would like?
I was thinking the same. My understanding is that neopaganism is more about the general process with which people come up with mythic significance for natural phenomena than any specific pagan myth. There certainly seems to be a case for humans doing that spontaneously in a state of nature, though it’s hard to tell exactly how wide the variation would be.
The closest the human universals list has are “belief in supernatural/religion” and “weather control (attempts to)”. So everyone ends up trying to magic up nature into doing stuff, but they’re not necessarily reverent about it like the neopagans would like?