INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS Flashcards
A long-stemmed sacred pipe used primarily by many native peoples of North America; it is smoked as a token of peace.
calumet:
A foretelling of the future or a look into the past; a discovery of the unknown by magical means.
divination:
Organic, integrated; indicating a complete system, greater than the sum of its parts; here, refers to a culture whose various elements (art, music, social behavior) may all have religious meaning.
holistic:
The act of pouring a liquid on the ground as an offering to a god.
libation:
A human being who contacts and attempts to manipulate the power of spirits for the tribe or group.
shaman:
An attempt to influence the outcome of an event through an action that has an apparent similarity to the desired result—for example, throwing water into the air to produce rain or burning an enemy’s fingernail clippings to bring sickness to that enemy.
sympathetic magic:
A strong social prohibition (Tongan: tabu; Hawaiian: kapu).
taboo:
An animal (or image of an animal) that is considered to be related by blood to a family or clan and is its guardian or symbol.
totem:
Although there is no agreement on how to speak of ancient religious ways, they are often inadequately referred to as traditional, aboriginal, indigenous, tribal, ______, primal, native, oral, and basic.
non-literate
Indigenous religions exist generally within ______ cultures, in which every object and act may have religious meaning.
holistic
In many Native American religious traditions, there is little distinction between the human and animal worlds. These native religions see everything in the universe as being alive, a concept known as ______
animism
Sacred time is “the time of ______” Among the Koyukon people of the Arctic, it is called “distant time,” and it is the holy ancient past in which gods lived and worked. Among Australian Aborigines it is often called Dream-time, and it is the subject of much of their highly esteemed art.
eternity
.______ is the doorway through which the “other world” of gods and ancestors can contact us and we can contact them. It is associated with the center of the universe and can be constructed, often in a symbolic shape such as a circle or square.
Sacred space
Most indigenous religions have cosmic tales of their ______ They frequently speak of a High God and make little distinction between a god and an ancestor.file.
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origins
In native societies, everyday religious activity and practice are significant, because their primary purpose is often to place individuals, families, and groups in “right ______ ” with gods, ancestors, other human beings, and nature.
relationships
