World Religions Ch.2 Indigenous Religious Traditions Review

Lakota ritual that celebrates new year and prepares the tribe for the annual bison hunt:

Most indigenous religions believe that the boundaries between the human and supernatural realms are

Ritual practitioners who specialize in the art of divination:

Super-natural beings who emerged and roamed the Earth giving shape to landscape and creating various forms of life:

Unites many tribes across North America:

An entity such as a mountain, that is believed to connect the heavens and the earth- center of the world:

The foundation of Aboriginal religion is the concept of:

Ancestors left behind symbols of their presence in the forms of:

Capital city of the Aztec empire:

Poetic language of the Aztecs:

End of the Aztec empire is mostly credited to:

A cottonwood tree is used as the center axis mundi of a vision quest.

A vision quest's goal is to ensure greater success in hunting, curing the ill, and ________.

Seeking spiritual power through an encounter with a guardian spirit or other medium, following fasting & self-denial:

Native peoples of Australia:

The understanding of the nature of the universe:

Common language among the Northern Plains Indians:

A type of supernatural being who tends to disrupt the normal course of life:

For Aborigines, behind every ritual lies:

Sacred Elements of religious worship include: time, space, objects, __________, people, and actions.

System of social ordering dictates specific objects/activities are set aside for specific groups & forbidden to some:

Prepares for the great annual bison hunt:

The mythic time of Australian Aboriginal religion when the Ancestors inhabited the earth:

When does an Aborigine possess the spiritual essence of his/her totemic totem?

Which outside group arrived in Australia and interrupted the Aborigines:

Riffles enabled the Plains Indians to become great hunters of bison.

Use of techniques- throwing bones/shells to interpret the pattern- for gaining knowledge about an individual's future:

Feathered serpent who presided over a golden age of cultural brilliance; Toltec god:

The supreme god of the Yoruba:

Recreating the mythic past of the Dreaming in order to tap into its sacred power is done through:

Lakota name for the supreme reality, often referring to sixteen separate deities:

The hundreds of various Yoruba deities who are the main objects of ritual attention, including Orishna-nla, Ogun, & Esu:

Aboriginal religious life seeks to maintain harmonious relationships among the supernatural, the human world, and ______

The Yoruba god _________ first began to create the world in in the city of Ife.

Ruled as priest-king on earth for the Aztecs under Quetzalcoatl:

Lakota trickster figure:

Natural entity, like animal or a feature of the landscape, that symbolizes an individual or group and has significance:

Western Sioux also known as:

Refers to 16 separate deities, referring to the four compass directions:

Most visited archaeological site in America: