Maurice Crowell
1. Some religions were formed before some religions
that we have today that makes them primal. It is within a small group of people
in a tribe, they have mythic and ritual traditions, and primal religions are
for illiterate people as they don’t read any scriptures.
2. The ancestors established that the earth was formless.
They created the first forms of life and that they left behind symbols when
they left the earth.
3. Sacred power with religious significance
4. Totem-A
natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual
significance and adopted by it as an emblem.
Taboo-A custom
prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with
a particular person, place, or thing.
5. It brings people to their
spiritual identity.
6. From the Ancestors
7. It prepares the person for spiritual adulthood.
8. Circumcision and two teeth of a nine year old boy
are buried.
9. Nigeria, Benin and Togo.
10. It is where Yoruba’s god is said to have created
the world.
11. The whole understanding is to maintain balance
in the world between heaven and earth.
12. A supreme god to inhabit heaven.
13. Sacred deities with sacred power.
14. Olokun - guardian of the deep ocean, the abyss, and signifies
unfathomable wisdom
Ori - Ruler of the head
15. A mischievous being.
16. Family
17. It mediates between
gods and ancestors.
18. Ones future can be
predicted with divination. It is essential because it helps one go on in their
life.
19. Migrating from Asia
20. Religion is vital
because of the number of languages all of the tribes speak.
21. Wakan Tanka means
supreme reality.
22. Inktomi is a god
that mediates the supernatural and human world.
23. After a person has
died, their soul goes to basically a judgment to see if it will become an ancestor
or a ghost.
24. Spiritual Power.
25. Structure- A hut
composed of animal skin
Function- People are sprinkled
water over them by a man with medicine.
26. A message is given
to a person trough a vision, then they try to interpret the vision.
27. A sacred leader
28. Axis Mundi is the
sun in the sun dance.
29. They believe that
it is a sacrifice that they can give in regards to how their body is theirs.
30. The Aztec’s were
not small, they were a civilization. They are the same because the both have
things to do with rituals.
31. Honduras
and Costa Rica
32. Quetzalcoatl created the world in Tenochtitlan.
33. Ruler of the Golden Age.
34. The golden age of cultural brilliance
35. The spatial world extends out into the universe
with four quadrants.
36. Aztecs believed this because every human is
connected.
37. Aztecs were able to understand a human being
through their religion.
38. Virgin of Guadalupe.
39. It embraces the entire Aztec history.
40. Communication, Religion, and Knowledge.
