"Spirits were everywhere": The Indians

...active, sentient, and sensitive spirits, spirits with consciences, memories, and purposes, that surrounded them, instructed them...these vital spirits inhered in the heavens, the earth, the seas, and everything within. They drove the stars in the sky and gave life and sensibility to every bird, animal, and person that existed, and they were active within the earth's materials--rocks, hills, lakes, and rivers--and in the wind, the cold, the heat, and the seasons. 
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The whole of live was a spiritual enterprise...