Mircea Eliade: Religious examples

Question 1

All religious worlds provide a creation story

Answer 1

Cosmogony

Question 2

Eliade thinks that since there are form of religious myths, they perform the _.

Answer 2

eternal return

Question 3

Cosmogony brings you back to a sacred time by _ with it.

Answer 3

fusing your time

Question 4

Religious communities re-tell stories over again to connect people’s _ by receiving it as true.

Answer 4

hearts and minds

Question 5

A religious example of a creation story?

Answer 5

Gikuyu (African)

Question 6

Ancient people in Kenya

Answer 6

Gikuyu

Question 7

Scholar of religions believe that how people approach creation stories, is the same for _.

Answer 7

miracle stories

Question 8

How would scholars look for patterns in creation stories?

Answer 8

By comparing them

Question 9

The tree in the Gikuyu creation story has a special association with the _.

Answer 9

creator of the universe

Question 10

The Gikuyu creation story is similar to the Genesis biblical creation story of _.

Answer 10

Adam and Eve

Question 11

Eliade questions about the commonalities between creation stories and its function of _.

Answer 11

transcending any one explanation

Question 12

Eliade says that cosmogony shows a process in which the universe went from _.

Answer 12

chaos to order

Question 13

None of it actually comes in order, it just shows up. It is a process of something that is _.

Answer 13

unformed being formed

Question 14

All creation stories always have order created out of chaos

Answer 14

Axis-mundi

Question 15

Religious worlds must have a center

Answer 15

Axis-mundi

Question 16

For the Gikuyu’s center of the universe is _.

Answer 16

Mount Kenya

Question 17

Judaism’s center of the universe is _.

Answer 17

Jerusalem

Question 18

Eliade says that “axis-munid” always show up in the _.

Answer 18

same way-vertical structure

Question 19

Connects the divine to the human world

Answer 19

Vertical structure

Question 20

What is the vertical structure in Gikuyu story?

Answer 20

mountain

Question 21

If the divine is up then humans are _.

Answer 21

down

Question 22

The divine from up is sending _ to down below by getting humans healed, blessed, or guided.

Answer 22

communications

Question 23

If humans didn’t receive any communications from the divine then humans would be in the _.

Answer 23

unknown

Question 24

Humans needs _.

Answer 24

structure

Question 25

For the Christians, the cross leads people to _.

Answer 25

salvation

Question 26

Acknowledging the creator as the master of the universe

Answer 26

top of Eliade’s axis mundi

Question 27

Providing the connection to the divine religious traditions

Answer 27

Orientation

Question 28

Telling your place in the universe and how you are connected with the source

Answer 28

Orientation