Brian Griffith's Blog - Posts Tagged "zoolotry"

By the later standards of orthodox Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, ancient Egyptian religion was nothing but primitive zoolatry. Peter Renouf denounced it (in 1879) as “one of the lowest and grossest forms of nature worship, as consisting in what is commonly called African fetishism.ˮ For ancient Egyptians, there was no creature too low, even the dung beetle, for at least some people to worship it.
War and Peace with the Beasts: A History of Our Relationships with Animals