Foreign Idea of a Cosmic Kingship Religion is one of the constants that exist for all the peoples of the world. When the as yet primitive tribes in South America and remote Pacific islands in the twentieth century, they had firmly ensconced religious beliefs. When Cortes arrived in the "new world" and made his men burn their ships, he found many people who worshipped different gods. Luckily for Cortes they worshipped him also. It made his conquest that much easier. A thread that entangles itself in all that mankind does or has done. Religion has been the cause of war and peace, sacrifice of both the body and nature, and it has given the world some of its greatest art treasures. It has definitely worked its way into every part of every culture.

Religion also takes on many forms. People are trying to understand elements of the world around them that are mysterious and frightening. So, sometimes the religion created has to be just as scary. There has to be some balance struck, so the people can feel at home with what they have created. It often happens that unscrupulous rulers want people to bow down to them, so they pretend to either control the messages of the gods, or they pretend to be gods themselves (much as Cortes did). When seeking out the form of religion, people often make it mysterious. Every culture has some form of creation myth which tells of how the universe came to be in a fantastic way. From the Judeo-Christian-Muslim view of a Creator Being, to indigenous tribes who imaginer the earth was created by a great bird (usually an eagle) which scooped out the mountain, valleys,...

Whatever the myth or reality humans have always tried to put some face on the reality around them.
Another type of explanation is that the earth is the mother of all humankind and that naturally occurring elements of the earth are the gods. Many ancient peoples believed that gods resided in the most powerful elements that they could see. They were very familiar with the destructive power of wind, fire, water and the earth itself, so these four things became wrapped in the religion of these people. Often there were demigods who inhabited the trees, or a particular body of water, or lightening. In other words a feature of the larger gods, but the main deities in these cultures were the large, destructive elements themselves.

Researchers have also studied the religions of these peoples for many years and have determined that there are basically two types of religion. There are those that contain a metacosmic religiosity which can be seen to exist in all of the major western religions. Christians, Jews and Muslims all believe in a single entity that is controlling, and is outside the earth. The idea is the same as metaphysical, or above physical. This God is all powerful and exists apart from humans and nature. That is the nature of the term, that this God exists apart from humans and nature.

Then there is the term which is basically the converse of that, or cosmic religiosity. "Cosmic religiosity is the type found in Africa, Asia, and Oceana, sometimes called 'animism' by ethnologists. Characteristically it is a…