History Main / GiantAnimalWorship

* In ''[[Film/Dune2021 Dune: Part One]]'' and ''Film/DunePartTwo'', the Fremen deify Shai-Hulud -- the gigantic {{Sand Worm}}s of Arrakis (which they also use as transportations via OutsideRide), as they consoder them spiritual symbols of their faith and physical embodiments of their One God.

* ''VideoGame/MOAstray'': The Inhabitants once had a mutually beneficial relationship with the giant worm Doula, caring for it's eggs as a show of thanks for being 'Mother of the Land' and providing huge quantities of life-giving water. [[spoiler: Doula is no longer holding up it's end of the bargain after being experimented on and mutated by human scientists. It continues to lay eggs but the offspring are shown to be mutated and vicious to the inhabitants who still try to look after them.]]

* In ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'' Holo is a gigantic wolf who was worshiped by a village until the Church converted most of the people and she left with a traveling merchant. Of course one could consider her [[PhysicalGod an actual god]], what with her shapeshifting into a LittleBitBeastly human form and influence over wheat harvests.

* ''Film/KingKong1933'': Possibly the TropeCodifier where the natives of Skull Island leave a sacrifice (the "bride of Kong") behind a wall so the giant gorilla leaves their village alone.
* ''Film/KingKong2005'': In this one, the villagers seem to view Kong as a guardian deity who protects them against the dinosaurs on the island.
* ''Film/KongSkullIsland'': Kong is once again worshiped, and protects the island from the deadly Skullcrawlers.

** ''Literature/{{Taggerung}}'' has a tribe of pygmy shrews who feed on schools of tiny eels that migrate through their lands every year. In order to ensure that this happens, they choose a tribe member by lottery (they walk under a dripping stalactite and whoever gets splashed is chosen) to be fed to Yo Karr, an enormous eel they believe is responsible for bringing its tiny brethren. Tagg is having none of this and kills Yo Karr himself.

* ''VideoGame/Portal2'': One of the hypothesized apocalypse scenarios is "Animal King" where such a being rules over mankind (represented by a giant leopard-print turret).

* ''The Blue World'' by Creator/JackVance. The humans stranded on an OceanWorld after their PenalSpaceship crashed started feeding a large 'kragen' so it would drive away the others. By the time of the novel King Kragen has grown into a giant sea monster that the FuturePrimitive humans worship, with the encouragement of their priests who secretly control the creature and use it to maintain their own power. The protagonist doesn't like this and decides to KillTheGod.

** The ''Stormwrack'' splatbook mentions the natives of an undersea village seeing a giant shark as a kind of protector, because it scares off other predators.
** The ''AD&D'' adventure ''Isle of the Ape'' (essentially one long Film/KingKong ShoutOut) has a 30-foot-tall ape (several, actually) believed to be a god by the natives who regularly leave sacrifices to it consisting of pigs, monitor lizards or the occasional ape or human along with mountains of fruit and vegetables. The apes aren't particularly hungry for meat, they consider it a bonus as they're mostly interested by the fruits.

** LizardFolk are sometimes depicted worshiping and serving dragons, recognizing the as a kind of apex predator among their own kind. [[OurDragonsAreDifferent While dragons are intelligent and powerful]], they're rarely ever truly divine.

->''The ancient scrolls say it's a white boar the size of a mountain!! That's what they call the Mountain God!!''

* In ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'' Holo is a gigantic wolf who was worshiped by a village until the Church converted most of the people and she left with a traveling merchant. Of course she might actually be a god what with her shapeshifting into a LittleBitBeastly human form and influence over wheat harvests.