Primal Religions

This culture teaches that the first step to a vision quest is a sweat lodge.

This culture believes that human beings are gateways to the spiritual realm.

Primal societies reject blood-offerings as essential.

Primal societies believe the doorway between the physical and spiritual realms is easily crossed.

This culture believed they were chosen to feed the gods human offerings.

This culture's trickster figure is Inktomi the spider.

This cultures believes in the two realms of "heaven and earth".

This culture's supreme source of life is called "Olorun".

Performing the proper rituals in the correct way to avoid ancestoral anger.

Various ritual techniques that serve the purpose of gaining spiritual messages from the ancestors.

A supernatural being that disrupts or harms the normal course of life.

Primal religious societies no longer exist in the modern world.

Primal religions place an importance on myths and oral story-telling.

Primal societies see the natural world around them as sacred.

Primal societies often develop creeds and formalized scriptures.

Primal societies believe the properly performed rituals can tap into spiritual powers.

A nine yearold male must be circumcized and have teeth removed.

Primal societies should be labeled as inferior to modern societies.

This culture believes in the Great Spirit Wakan Tanka

Primal societies rarely undergo change.

This culture's trickster figure is Esu.

Primal societies do not believe the human body is sacred.

Intitation rituals symbolically kill childhood and give birth to adulthood.

This cuture's cosmology mentions the Ancestors as creators of human society.

A tree or pole believed to connect the spiritual and physical realms.