Weather Focused Gods

For a very time, humans were convinced that they could influence the weather with their behaviour. In germany it was common for farmers to gather up earthworms and dry them over a fire in order to prevent too much rain. A group of naked maidens would enter the river and then crawl out like a crayfish, hoping it would nudge the rain into action. Roughly 25 hundred years ago in china, a philosopher named yan ying was asked by a local rule how he might encourage rain to fall on his crops. Prayers to invisible gods and ritual dance ceremonies to running naked through the forest or cooking worms over a fire are just some of the bizarre traditions we