Primal Religions
Aborigines
African Yoruba
N. Am. Plains Indians
Aztecs
100
These are two characteristics of a culture that has a primal religion.
What is a tribal/nonliterate people?
100
The actions of the Ancestors, upon which the Aborigines base their rituals and myths.
What is the Dreaming?
100
Mediator between heaven and earth who is also a trickster.
Who is Esu?
100
Means "snakes."
What is the meaning of the name for the Sioux tribe?
100
Quetzalcoatl.
Who is the Toltec god who presided over a golden age of cultural brilliance?
200
Myth and the reenacting of ritual.
What are two major features of all primal religions?
200
Something that can be charged with power, according to the Aborigines. (HINT: NOT a totem.)
What is a cave?
200
Deities that the Yoruba worship.
What are Orishas?
200
The name for the supreme reality.
What is Wakan Tanka?
200
Teotihuacan.
What is the large Aztec city where Quetzelcoatl was worshipped?
300
These are easily crossed over by humans and gods.
What are boundaries between heaven and earth?
300
Totem.
What is a natural form, such as an animal or rock, that symbolizes an Ancestor?
300
Divination.
What is the practice by which Yoruba priests learn about someone's future?
300
The person who advises a North American Plains Indian when he/she goes on a vision quest.
What is a medicine man/woman?
300
It was considered to be excellent nourishment for the sun.
What is the human body?
400
A word that means "first."
What is primal?
400
Knocking out the bottom two teeth, circumcision, Wilyaru, bull roarer, etc.
What are Aboriginal initiation rituals?
400
Olorun.
Who is the supreme Yoruba god, the original source of power in the universe?
400
Cottonwood tree.
What is the axis mundi during the Sun Dance?
400
Religious power was thought to be conveyed through this.
What is the mastery of language?
500
Totemism, taboo, the trickster figure, the vision quest, and the axis mundi.
What are shared elements of primal religions?
500
_______________ is essential if life is to have meaning for the Aborigines.
What is ritual?
500
Wisdom stories.
What do diviners use to help people learn about their future?
500
The name of the Lakota trickster figure.
Who is Inktomi?
500
The item used to reward the row who starts their bell work first.
What is the pinecone?
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