Animism

The blood of the deer people, the Ita aⁿyadi, flows through my veins. I feel their gentle spirits guiding me, their magic protects me, and their wildness calls me home to the forest.

We belong to this land and we are bonded to it. When we grow from children to adults there is a ceremony where we create a special bond, a covenant, with the land and its guardians. The land speaks to us because we believe in it, in its spirits. Without these beliefs, we would be but empty shells.