Religion
This indigenous religion is most famous for its practice of human sacrifice:
The Aztecs
This Plains Indians ritual involves dancing, fasting, and tearing one’s flesh:
Sun Dance
Believed that Ancestors trekked the Earth before them:
Aborigines
These are the beings that first created the world in Australian Aboriginal belief:
The Ancestors from the Dreaming
All religions believed there was a supreme god who helped create ________
The universe
This indigenous African religion has a special diviner that seeks to make spiritual connections with the gods:
Yoruba
This ritual was famously used by the Aztec in order to appease the gods:
Human Sacrifice
Aztec belief that there were 4 quadrants that spread out from here:
The axis mundi
These are the Yoruba deities, believed to influence the lives of humans
The Orishas
_______ structures society which restricts certain activities to specific members of a religious community
Taboo
These indigenous American tribes are known for their vision quests, which involve entering a sweat lodge to purify themselves and enduring the elements without food or water in search for a vision:
Lakota Sioux
This ritual was done in search of a vision and involved purifying oneself before embarking on a journey without nutrition
Vision Quest
Where did the Aztecs believe the four previous suns were located? Where is the current sun located?
The four previous suns were located in the center, west, north, and south of the universe. The current sun is located in the east.
A trickster spider deity that the Lakota believed mediated between the supernatural and human world
Inktomi
A _______ serves as a common belief between religions that natural entities, such as animals, symbolizes a person/group and hold spiritual significance:
Totem
This indigenous culture reenacts the Dreaming, or the creation of the world, in ritual:
Australian Aborigines
This Aborigines ritual represents the time when the ancestral spirits created the important religious and geographic sites
The Dreaming
There is a “Supreme Reality” and myths explain the creation of the world and the first humans
Lakota Sioux
Meaning “feathered serpent”, this Aztec god was believed to be the creator of “all art and knowledge”
Quetzalcoatl
The spiritual center of the world in many indigenous religions
Axis mundi
They spoke sometimes in riddles:
Aztecs
This Yoruba ritual involves an intricate system of hundreds of wisdom stories:
Divination
Believe there are two separate worlds- Heaven and Earth- and ritual practitioners can mediate between them
Yoruba
Also known as the Virgin Mary, this figure appeared to an Aztec convert to Catholicism named Juan Diego
Tonantzin
The Aztecs and The Lakota Sioux both harmed or sacrificed humans because:
They believed that human bodies were the only things belonging to them