Since the early 1970s the period environment belief has been utilised to denote beliefs that share a reverence for environment and address it to be divine, sacred, or populated by religious beings. Practitioners of paganism and Wicca use the period as a descriptive sunshade for all earth- and nature-oriented spiritualities. Under environment belief they location spiritualities and culture they accept as factual were common before the expansion of the world's superior religions. Nature beliefs therefore encompass Norse, Celtic, and Germanic myths and folkways; polytheistic, pantheistic, animistic, fertility-oriented, and goddess-worshiping religions; shamanism and tribal (indigenous) religions; numerous New Age ...