Native North American Traditions
This is who the Native American's believe created the world. Some of it's names are...
A Great Spirit
For the Sioux it is Wakan Tanka
For the Hopi it is Masau
For the Iroquois it is Orenda
For the Ojibwa it is Kitche Manitou
This is the Aztec God of learning and priesthood. He is often depicted as a plumed serpant.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
The belief that all plants, animals, and objects have spirits.
What is animism?
This is what the Aryans worshiped.
What is nature?
This is the number of gods that each Greek temple honored.
What is one?
This important person is thought to have close contact with the spirit world.
Who is the shaman?
This is what the Aztec people believed they needed to do for their civilization to survive.
What is feed the sun god with blood every day by performing human sacrifice?
This is the act of foretelling future events.
What is divination?
This is their most significant prophet.
Who is Zoroaster?
This was a person considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic predictions.
Who is an oracle?
This substance was thought to bring closer contact with spirit worlds.
What is peyote?
These were certain places or objects that the Inca believed were possessed by a supernatural power, they could be mountains, rivers, buildings or ancient shrines.
What are Huacas?
This is the person who calls on higher powers to restore balance to the sick.
Who is the shaman or ng'anga?
This is the supreme god of Zoroastrianism.
Who is Ahura Mazda?
This is where the 12 principle deities were thought to live.
What is Mount Olympus?
This signified the passage from a boy to a man.
What is a vision quest?
These gods were important to the Mayan religion.
Who are the gods of the sun, rain and corn.
This is kept outside of homes where the spirits of the dead can stay during their visits.
What are small wooden cages?
These men that were present shortly after Christ's birth are believed by some to be Zoroastrian priests.
Who are the three wisemen?
These are the two major works where the stories of the gods were written down.
What are the Illiad and the Odyssey?
Worship of this God was viewed as important.
What is the sun god.
This is what the Aztec deity Huitzilopochtli was depicted as.
What is a snake?
Religious rituals mark the rites of passage for these four events.
What is birth, puberty, marriage and death.
This is the name of the sacred cord that is wrapped three times around the waist over a white tunic that is presented to children who are initiated into the faith at age seven.
What is the kusti?
This is the most famous temple in Greece.
What is the Parthenon in Athens.