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Primal Religious Traditions

Primal Religious Traditions. Ch. 2. Australian Aborigines. The Dreaming Totem Religious Life Ritual Taboo Initiation. Yoruba. Cosmology Heaven & Earth Purpose of religion Maintain balance. Yoruba. Gods & Ancestors Olorun , the H igh God Orishas , lesser deities Orisha-nla Ogun

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Primal Religious Traditions

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  1. Primal Religious Traditions Ch. 2

  2. Australian Aborigines • The Dreaming • Totem • Religious Life • Ritual • Taboo • Initiation

  3. Yoruba • Cosmology • Heaven & Earth • Purpose of religion • Maintain balance

  4. Yoruba • Gods & Ancestors • Olorun, the High God • Orishas, lesser deities • Orisha-nla • Ogun • Esu • Ancestors of the Living • Ritual Practioners

  5. North American Plains Indians • Lakota • Wakan Tanka • Vision quest • Sun Dance • Axis mundi

  6. Aztecs • Influenced by Toltec tradition • Quetzalcoatl • Teotihuacan • Cosmology • Age of the Fifth Sun • Four Directions & axis mundi

  7. Aztecs Human sacrifice Mastery of Language

  8. Aztecs Day of the Dead Tenochtitlan • Aztec Empire to Catholic Mexico • Hernan Cortes • Fall of Tenochtitlan and the Aztec empire • Virgin of Guadalupe • Dia de los Muertos

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