Primitive religions persist to the present day. Generally, they revolve around the commands of lesser or “astral gods” and the actions of “angels” and other heralds.

In times of strain and calamity the old dark gods emerge from the jungle and crude, primitive religion comes back. We are today threatened with it again in the prevailing cult of astrology. With ...

Primitive secret societies; a study in early politics and religion, by Hutton Webster ...

PROF. KAESTEN, in formulating his theories of the origins of primitive religion, is in a position to draw upon an extensive acquaintance with the beliefs of backward peoples, especially in South ...

MR. DIAMOND holds that Sir Henry Maine's conception of primitive law as inseparable from the concepts of primitive religion and morality is no longer tenable in the light of modern research, and ...

Maud W. Makemson, Astronomy in Primitive Religion, Journal of Bible and Religion, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Jul., 1954), pp. 163-171 ...