Ch.2 test Flashcards
Totems are natural entities, such as an animal or a feature of the landscape, that symbolize an individual or group and that have special significance for the religious life of that individual or group
totem
Taboo means a system of social ordering that dictates that specific objects and activities, owing to their sacred nature, are set aside for specific groups and are strictly forbidden to others.
taboo
A Lakota trickster figure, a mediator between supernatural and human worlds they taught the humans their ways and customs.
Inktomi
A spiritual power to help them gain success in activities like hunting, warfare and curing the ill.
Vision Quest
Quetzalcoatl created the world
Quetzalcoatl
It is a dark and airtight hut made of saplings and covered with animal skins, it is intended to represent the universe.
Sweat lodge
Divination is the use of many approaches to learn about someone’s future and about the root of a personal problem. It is seen to be crucial for figuring out how to move forward with one’s life.
Diviners
Tenochtitlan, also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City
Tenochtitlan
special religious capabilities of the Aztec knowers of things they could communicate with the gods and make offerings through language
Non Literate
Mischievous supernatural beings.
Trickster Figure
They created many forms of life including human beings, landscaping, language, and social rules.
The Dreaming
Axis Mundi is the world center. The Sun Dance axis mundi would be the tree. Aztecs believe in four quadrants extending outward from the center of the universe.
Axis Mundi
The Lakota name for supreme reality
Wakan Tanka
Aboriginals in Australia. Yoruba in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. Plain Indians (lakota) South Dakota. Aztecs in Mexico-City
Location of various Indigenous Religions
A sacred leader in their case a woman of outstanding character presides over it. Since they believe their bodies are the only thing they truly own they believe that bodily mutilation is the only suitable sacrifice.
Sun Dance
