Aborigines
Basis for structure of the Aborigines
What are the two separate worlds?
What is Heaven and earth
What are their two basic rituals?
Vision quest and sun dance
What animal was the Toltec God known as?
What is the Feathered Serpant?
What is the most common number between Aborigines, Native Americans, Aztecs, and Yoruba?
What is 4?
Each Aborigine was considered a living representation of what?
What are their ancestors?
Who is Ogun?
God of iron and war
What is their special number?
4
How is the spatial view of the world?
What are the 4 quadrants?
What 3 things could the 4 groups have in common?
The numbers 4, 16, and 28. Rituals, ceremonies.
The mythic period of the Aborigines
What is the Dreaming?
What is the name of the mediators between Oroluns and humans?
What are Orishas?
Where do the other parts of the souls go?
They are reborn into new bodies
What two forces are drawn from humans for sacrifice?
What is Head and heart?
Who is the Supreme Reality in the Native American religion?
Who is Lakota aka the Western Sioux?
Symbols of the Aborigines' ancestors on earth (in their opinions)
What are the two types of ancestors?
What are family and deified?
What shape is the sweat lounge?
Circular
Mastery of Language had some wit...what was a way to do this?
What are riddles?
With what type of people did the indiginous religions originate with?
Who are non-literate people?
How did the world look upon creation to the Aborigines?
What is formless?
A ritual specialist engaged in special practices called what?
What are diviners/divination?
Where do the vision questers go upon purification?
What is Hilltop?
What is the name of the Great temple stood at the point where the four directions meet?
What is the Serpent Mountain?
What is the phrase used to describe myths or stories passed from one generation to another?
What is "oral material"?