Nature Worship
In the present world, star and constellation worship exists only in a corrupted or concealed form. True star worship was only practiced by a few ancient cultures, most of which were affiliated with Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia was the birthplace of astral religions and mythology that influenced faiths all over the world. Both astronomy and astrology achieved high levels of sophistication in Mesopotamia, especially following a Hellenizing revival of astronomy. Mesopotamian astral worship and influence may have reached Central and Andean America, despite the fact that this is a contentious theory (by way of China or Polynesia). Not only Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Egypt, Iran, and India were influenced by Sumerian, Elamite, and Hurrian stargazing, but also other areas.
The Pythagoreans and Orphic (mystical philosophers) in the Mediterranean area, as well as astrological mystics in India, Indonesia, China, and Polynesia, all had knowledge of the zodiac and planets and observed precession. The spirit of ancient Mediterranean and Oriental understanding of the stars, for example, was greatly affected in western Sudan. Except for Sudan, northeast Africa, and what is now Zimbabwe (Mwene Matapa), very little of Africa has any significant understanding of the stars. Forest peoples' awareness of the stars is restricted unless traditional hunting cultures have persisted, as indicated by an Ekoi man in southeast Nigeria: "Ekoi people do not bother themselves with the stars since the trees constantly obscure them." The Ituri's scavengers. Forest dwellers have never attained the level of astronomical knowledge that African steppe dwellers have.
The study of the stars almost never leads to adoration of the stars. Star gods, for example, are uncommon in much of Africa. There was rarely real religious worship of the stars in Polynesia, where substantial knowledge of the stars was gained in regular schools of astronomy by seafaring people.
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