The 7 Dimensions of Religion: Primal Religious Traditions
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armsday13 on February 23, 2012
Subjects:
World Religions, Religion, Church History
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Experiential | receiving a vision or guardian spirit during a vision quest |
| Mythic | Aboriginal Ancestors and the Dreaming, trickster figures (such as Esu and Inktomi), Teotihuacan as the place of cosmic origins |
| Doctrinal | totemism, Yoruba theology of Olorun and the orishas, Lakota belief in four souls of the dead person, Aztec belief that the Age of the Fifth Sun would soon end |
| Ethical | moral lessons learned from the errors of Inktomi (the Lakota trickster figure) |
| Ritual | Aboriginal rites of initiation, the Sun Dance, Aztez human sacrafice |
| Social | taboo as the basis of social structure |
| Material | totems, bull-roarers, Yoruba masks, the sweat lodge, the Sun Dance lodge, the Great Temple (Serpent Mountain) of Tenochtitlan |
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