Blog Post 18: Primal Religions Questions

1. They are called primal because they are both unique and that form of religion was before the traditional religions came about. Some characteristics include mythic,  rituals, and worshiping of more than one god.

2.  Elements include  forms of life, and creation of first human beings.Also created symbols and tribes.

3. Every Aboriginal person.

4. Totem: the natural form being any emblem or symbol.

Taboo: prohibits anything in society considered inappropriate.

5. Rituals are essential both in identity and experience.

6. Their ancestors.

7. The  purposes served by the Aboriginal initiation rites is to

awaken people to their spiritual identity.

8.      1. The two lower teeth of a boy  are knocked out and buried in the ground.

         2. Blood poured.

9. The Yoruba’s people live in Nigeria, Benin and Togo.

10. It is beleived to be where Yoruba’s god,  Orishna-nla first began to create the world.

11. Yoruba understanding of cosmos.

The Yorubas depict the world as two separate divisions: heaven and earth. Heaven being the invisible homes of the Ancestors and Earth being the visible experience of human beings. The entire purpose is to maintain balance in the world.

12. Olorun is the major god of the Yoruba tribe.

13. The orishas are the lesser dieties, than Olorum. and significant  because they have sacred power.

14. Name and describe two orishas.

    1. Ogun- the god of Iron and war.

    2. Orisha-nla- recognized as creator of Earth.

15.  A trickster figure is a mischievous supernatural being.

16. Two types of Yoruba ancestors are family and defied.

17.  the role of the Yoruba ritual practitioner is to help people communicate with their ancestors.

18 . Divination is basically telling the future and is considered essential.

 

19.   Scholars believe  humans came to North America by crossing over the Bering Strait.

20. The religion of the Plains is vital to North America because they share similar cultures.

 

21. Wakan Tanka is the name given by the Lakota that means supreme reality.

22. Inktomi is the spider and also a god.

23.The Lakota believe that four souls depart from a person at death. The soul meets an old woman , who determines whether or not the soul is to live in the world of ancestors or back to earth as a ghost.

24. Spiritual Power is what individuals try to gain access to during vision quests.

25. The sweat lodge is a hut covered with animal skin that helps the vision quest.

26. A typical vision in vision quest happens at the end of the day,and  is communicated through the vision that is seen.

27.  A medicine man proceeds the sun dance in the Blackfeet tribe?

28. The axis mundi is the center of the universe in the form of a carved tree.

29. They believe their bodies are the only thing they truly own.

30.The Aztec  defy primal religion because they were a very populated society and spread over most of  South America. But they were similiar because they both did rituals.

31.Mesoamerica was located in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.

32.Quetzalcoatl created order in the world in the ancient city, Tenochtitla.

33.  Topiltzin  Quetzalcoatl in rule during the golden age.

34.The Aztecs called their present age the golden age.

35.The Aztecs understood the spatial world as having four quadrants, extending outward from the universe.

36.The Aztecs considered  each human  mundi because they made the world divine.

37.The special capabilities of the Aztec was being able to understand the human body and communication.

38. The historical coincidence that contributed to the fall of Tenochtitlan was

the veneration of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

39. The "Day of the Dead" shows survival because it embraces the recognition of their ancestors.

40. What three themes are shared in this chapter?

Three themes shared in this chapter are communication, nature of religion, and the desire to acquire knowledge.