Indigeneous Sacred Ways
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Tichondrus on October 3, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cosmogony | A model of the origins of the universe |
| Dreaming | The timeless time of creation, according to Australian aboriginal belief |
| Indigenous | native to an area |
| Lifeway | An entire approach to living in which sacred and secular are not separate |
| Medicine person | Indigenous healer |
| Orisa | Yoruba term for a deity |
| Shaman | person who has undergone spiritual ordeals and can communicate with the spirit world to help people. |
| Vision Quest | A solitary ordeal undertaken to seek spiritual guidance about one's mine in life |
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