Briefly discuss some of the Nature-oriented religions of ancient cultures. Explain how your family's religious practices are similar to, and different from, those earlier traditions.

This will require some reading, and maybe trips to museums also. Your parents or librarian can help you find books on Nature-oriented religions such as:

Northern Shamanism (Inuit, Lapp, etc.)
Native American Religions
Taoism in China
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Druidism
Early Norse Religion (and Odinism)
Sumerian and Babylonian Religion
Shintoism in Japan
Early African Religions
Polynesian Religions
Greek Pantheism

...And others. You do not have to become an expert in these. Just get a feel for a few of them and see how they are like your own religion, or different.

Archaeologists tell us that the first religions involved an Earth-Mother Goddess, a Horned God of animals, dancing in a circle, and keeping track of the Moon's phases. Sound familiar?

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