WR Chap 1 and Primal Test Review

Question 1

The understanding of the nature of both the universe and the world of ideas is called what?

Accepted Answer

cosmology

Question 2

a sort of mischievous supernatural being; often used as a teaching device

Accepted Answer

trickster figure

Question 3

Most primal religions believe that the boundaries between human and spiritual are

Accepted Answer

easily crossed over

Question 4

The purpose of the Yoruba religion is to do what?

Accepted Answer

maintain human and heavenly balance

Question 5

In a vision quest the vision most often arrives in the form of what?

Accepted Answer

an animal or some other natural object

Question 6

Tenochtitlan fell to the Spanish partly because Hernan Cortes was mistaken for whom?

Accepted Answer

Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl

Question 7

Friedrich Max Mueller noted that to know just one religion is to know what?

Accepted Answer

none

Question 8

Primal religions tend to be the traditions of whom?

Accepted Answer

tribal peoples

Question 9

The Sun Dance is a ritual that does what?

Accepted Answer

celebrates the New Year and the new hunt

Question 10

the hundreds of deities worshiped by the Yoruba

Accepted Answer

orisha

Question 11

All primal traditions include basic features, such as what?

Accepted Answer

myth and ritual

Question 12

The basic dimensions of a religious tradition include what?

Accepted Answer

all of these

Question 13

The foundation of the Aboriginal religion is a concept called what?

Accepted Answer

the Dreaming

Question 14

The aborigines believe that the essences of the Ancestors are?

Accepted Answer

remaining in various symbols

Question 15

the Mesoamerican creator god worshiped by the Toltecs and Aztecs

Accepted Answer

Quetzalcoatl

Question 16

Yoruba priests who help people learn their future and will of the gods

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diviners

Question 17

a natural form, such as animal, that symbolizes an ancestor

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totem

Question 18

a system that dictates certain sacred items are set aside for specific members of the group

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taboo

Question 19

a mountain, tree or pole believed to connect heaven and earth

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axis mundi

Question 20

According to Aboriginal religion, this could be charged with sacred power

Accepted Answer

cave

Question 21

the capital city of the Aztec empire, believed to the be the center of the world

Accepted Answer

Tenochtitlan

Question 22

The Plains Indians often go where for ritual purification?

Accepted Answer

sweat lodge

Question 23

Religion and science are what?

Accepted Answer

often approach the same questions

Question 24

What is our evacuation space?

Accepted Answer

946

Question 25

Wakan Tanka is what to the Lakota?

Accepted Answer

sixteen separate deities combined

Question 26

Mesoamerica included which present day countries?

Accepted Answer

Mexico and Costa Rica

Question 27

The Aztec understanding of the axis mundi extended to what?

Accepted Answer

both of these

Question 28

The purpose of a lock down drill is what?

Accepted Answer

protect students from gunmen

Question 29

The "experience of the Holy Other" is often characterized by what?

Accepted Answer

fear and fascination

Question 30

Aztecs attributed the creation and ordering of the world to which god?

Accepted Answer

Quetzalcoatl

Question 31

A religion that does not hold a belief in a god or gods is what?

Accepted Answer

nontheistic

Question 32

the supreme god of the Yoruba

Accepted Answer

Olorun

WR Chap 1 and Primal Test Review

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WR Chap 1 and Primal Test Review

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