Chapter 2 - Indigenous Religions

This ritual celebrates the new year and prepares the tribe for the annual bison hunt.

This indigenous group believes that four souls depart from a person at death.

The ancient city of Tenochtitlan is the site of modern day . . .

The Aztecs rejected the religious concepts of the Toltecs.

The Great Spirit of the Sioux was

This art is practiced by Yoruba priests to learn to predict someone's future.

For the Aztecs, language was important because it could convey a great deal of religious power.

The Aztec mother goddess

This ritual joins the living and the dead through festive and spiritually meaningful rituals.

For Aztecs, this practice delayed the end of the Age of the Fifth Sun

A "trickster figure" of the Yoruba

Indigenous religions tend to be static, i.e. not open to change.

According to the Aztecs, we are living in the Age of the Fifth Sun.

This location of the Pyramid of the Sun is considered by the Aztecs as the origin of the cosmos

During human sacrifice, the heart was offered as nourishment to the sun.

The Vision Quest begins . . .

The mesoamerican creator god

For the Lakota, this is the center of the university

The Aztecs thought Cortez was Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, the long-lost priest-king of the Toltecs.

There are no Aztec beliefs in evidence in modern day Mexico.

Because it was sacred, the Vision Quest could only be performed once in a lifetime.

The Yoruba believe that Olorun is the primary, original source of power in the universe.

The trickster figure for the Lakota tribe was

The Sun Dance is performed in a specially constructed lodge.