World Religions
23 January 2013
1. Because Christians believe anything before them is incomplete and uncivilised (primal) and anything after them is heresy.
2. 2. The ansestors created landscapes different from those who had previously been there. there were specific languages and rules.
3. spiritual essence
4. taboo is like the prohibition of
certain behaviors because of the fear of the spiritual powers that come with
them. Totems are natural entity that is a symbol of an individual with
importance to a specific religion.
5. ritual is important for life if it
is to have meaning. And this is found through Dreaming that can be experienced.
6. ritual originated from past
ansestors who created the world through dreaming. These are basically reenactments
of myths.
7. Initiation
rituals awaken young people to the spiritual identity and redefine their social
identify in a tribe.
8. Circumcision and
the two lower middle teeth being knocked out
9. Nigeria, Benin
and togo
10.Yoruba believe
that Orish-nla began creating the world here.
11. Yoruba
cosmological view of the world depicts reality being divided into two separate
worlds which were heaven and earth. Human beings are descended from gods and
earth is also populated by deviant forms of human beings call witches and
sorcerers who can cause chaos. The purpose of this religion is to maintain
balance between the gods and humans and also to keep the sorcerers and witches
from doing evil deeds.
12. He is the God of
Yoruba and is the major source of th
13.
14. One Orisha is Orish-nla and Yoruba believe that he created the earth. Another one is Ogun, the god of war and iron who was once a human but then died and became a god.
15.15 A trickster figure is a type of supernatural being who tends to disrupt the normal course of life.
16. Family ancestors gained supernatural status by earning a good reputation and living to an old age. They are worshiped by their own families. Diefied ancestors were important human figures in Yoruba society who are now worshiped in large numbers.
17. The role of ritual practitioners is to mediate between the gods and ancestors in heaven, and human beings on earth.
18. Divination is the use of various techniques for gaining knowledge about an individual’s future or about the cause of a problem. Divination is important because knowledge of one’s future is essential for determining how to proceed in one’s life.
19. Human being came to North America either 20,000 or 30,000 years ago by migrating from Asia to the Bering Strait. They gradually spread out and inhibited both North and South America.
20. because their religion represents Native American religion in general.
21. Wakan Tanka is the Lakota name for supreme reality and means most sacred. Wakan Tanka represents sixteen separate deities.
22. Inktomi means spider and is the Lakota trickster figure taught the first human beings their ways and customs.
23. The Lakota believe that when someone dies one of their four souls goes on a journey along the spirit path of the Milky Way. The soul is judged and either becomes an ancestor or a ghost on earth. The remaining parts of the soul are reborn into new bodies.
24. The primary goal of a vision quest is for an individual to gain spiritual power to ensure greater success in hunting and warfare.
25. A sweat lodge is a dark hut made of saplings and covered in animal skins. The Lakota built it to represent the universe and they believe the sweating leads to purification.
26. The vision arrives in the form of an animal, an object, or a force nature. A message is often communicated in these visions and the individual tells the medicine man who then explains the vision.
27. "women with outstanding moral character"
28. Connects heaven and earth like a tree. Cottonwood tree.
29. its the only thing they actually own, and therefore is the only sacrifice suitable for the supreme being.
30. a) highly developed/populated.b) interrelationships between myth and rituals was like other religions.
31. Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
32. Quetalcoatl; Teotihuacan
33. He was god's earthly devotee and was a priest king. he is significant because the Aztecs believed he was the ruler or preside of the Golden Age and was the perfect role model for authority figures.
34. Age of the Fifth Sun; they anticipated the sun being destroyed like the other suns.
35. they thought it had four quarters coming from the center of the universe and this connected the earthly world to the spiritual/heavenly world.
36. because the head and the heart are reguarded as potent for the nourishment for the sun and the cosmos. it creates a link between the earthly and heavenly realms.
37. He could communicate with the gods and make offerings through language which was an alternate to sacrafice.
38. in 1519 the Aztec king was suppose to return, but the spanish general came dressed in feathers and disappointed them because the Cortex (who was the general) began to conqure them.
39. during the celebration modern day Aztecs set aside time to preform the rituals that the antient Aztecs use to practice.
40. Nature of religion-secular and sacred things are not separate; change; supernatural and human worlds have a fuzzy line between them and are easily crossed.
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