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Cosmologies Flashcards

1
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what are the five parts of the Christian cosmos?

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Heaven, Hell, The firmament, Earth, Purgatory

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What is purgatory

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A place (perhaps a mountain) or a purifying inner experience (no defined physical location)
removes venial sin by fire

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describe the firmament

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separates the waters above and the waters below. has holes for communication or travel to heaven

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the elect

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those who lived exemplary lives, who ascend directly to heaven

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theosis

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transformative effect of divine grace, becoming more godlike in spirit

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mortal sins

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committed deliberately, with knowledge and consent. sentenced to eternal damnation

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venial sins

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forgivable sins, through purgatory to cleanse before election

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Sheol

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hebrew, Pit/hell
has water beneath it

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heaven is occupied by

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saints, angels, ascended souls

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purgatory is occupied by

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Venial sinners undergoing purification through fire

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what is an axis mundi

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a world axis, manifests in many cultures (pan cultural), conduit connecting cosmic realms, facilitating communication and movement between them

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examples of Axis Mundis

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Yggdrasil (norse), Bile Buadha/Craebh (Celtic), Irminsul and yeavering (germanic)

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High places

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foci in landscape with consolidation of territories/cities. Pan cultural, liminal spaces
proto-urbanization locals: Ceremonial and economic functions occurred here

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examples of High places

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Chang’an, Hill of Tara

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irminsul

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a monumental wooden pillar, acts as an axis mundi in germanic

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early celtic cultures

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Hallstatt (8th-6th C), La Tene (500-1st C BCE)

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issues with anthropological writings from MA?

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a lot of greco-romano-centrism since most knowledge from these cultures

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Magh Mor

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upper world (sky)

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Mide

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middle world (land)

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Tir Andomain/TIr na nog

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the other world (sea)

21
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trees of power

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Bile buadha or Craebh (celtic), Yggdrasil (Norse)

22
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Tuatha de danan

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the sidhe (faeries or gods) from the book of invasions (12 C)

23
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Meath

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site of the Hill of Tara and Newgrange. Occupied by ancestors of irish people (Milesians) after Tuatha are relegated to “other world”

24
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how is the otherworld accessed

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through entering burial mounds, caves, crossing sea, diving underwater

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Liminal spaces

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communication with ancestors is facilitated (place or time when the veil is thinnest, chance of encountering sidhe is high) eg. water, burial mounds etc.

26
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high cross

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mound/raised base and vertical pillar

27
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Nemeton

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a sacred wood in celtic tradition

28
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fidnemed

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sacred woods in irish tradition

29
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samhain

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end of harvest season, time of feasting and prepping for winter.
Dagda weds morrigan/nemain/badb catha

30
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Dagda

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tribal god, father, benefactor, protector

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Morrigan

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queen of demons

32
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nemain

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panic

33
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badb catha

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raven of battle

34
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universalis columna quasi sustinens omnia

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a universal pillar supporting the whole

35
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nine cosmic realms united by yggdrasil in norse cosmology

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Asgard, alfheim, vanaheim, midgard, jotuneheim, nidavellir, svartalfheim, muspelheim, Hell

36
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who destroyed germanic monument Irminsul and when

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Charlemagne in 772

37
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Lau Tzu

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a legendary or semi-legendary figure who wrote the Tao Te Ching when leaving the city of Chengzhou

38
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Tao Te Ching

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531 BCE, written by Lau-Tzu.
The great book of the way of virtue

39
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Wu Chi or Tao

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The beginning. universal energy from which all things eminate

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the one

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emerges from Tao, manifest the world. divides into two (yin and yang)

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Chi (qi)

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material energy/ energy flow/ life force
fueled by interactions of Yin and Yang

42
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the five elements

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wood, fire, metal, water, earth. generated by interactions of Yin and Yang

43
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ten thousand things

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emerge from the five elements. constitute all manifest existance

44
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the practice of taoism is

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an attempt to perceive the presence and workings of the universal tao, and to live in balanced accordance with it

45
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taoist belief

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the world is populated by invisible spirits

46
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taoist reincarnation

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the soul/spirit does not die when the corporeal body ceases to function -> migrates to next body
continues until unification with the tao (Cutting the thread of life)

47
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Diyu

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intermediate stage before reincarnation. a preparatory realm (different from purgatory)

48
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The principle god of Taoism

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The Jade emperor, Yu Huang

49
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describe the taoist walled city

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a repository of culture within the walls. fantastic/magic/danger outside of these walls

Medi 200 (25 decks)

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