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LB is a good overview of the start of it for me and then there were the added layers of hearing a ton of local First Nations stories growing up, and taking long day-dream walks through the land that those legends told about, and even in church getting some of the trailing edge of 1970's 'nature is great' hippie Christianity. And then just stuff like the previously mentioned alt-school I went to for 7th grade, and the general Santa Fe culture.
I remember first picking up the Werewolf the Apocalypse books and getting blown away not (just) because of the badass wolves but also because so much of the cosmology resonated so much.