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13 Cards in this Set
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Cosmogony
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A theory of the origin of the universe.
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Dreamtime
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A sacred era in which ancestral totemic spirit beings created the world. (Australian aboriginal mythology) Male and female are not distinguished.
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Indigenous
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Of or relating to an era or land native inhabitants of an certain region or country.
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Lifeway
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A particular approach to all of life rather than something expressed only at certain times or places. (Indigenous Spirituality)
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Medicine person
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The mystical intermediary whose medicine power derives from an outside source.
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Shaman
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A Siberian world. Mystical intermediaries between the non-physical and physical world who have attained this states through heredity, a special gift.
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Vision quest
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A common mean of access to the other world, and may be a mean of establishing a relationship with a guardian spirit.
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Orisa
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Yoruba term for deity.
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Aborigine
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The first settlers of a land
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Vodu
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One of the names for the chief nonhuman spirits.
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Vodou
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The Dahomey tradition from West Africa carried to Haiti by African slaves. Secretly fused with Christianity after being forced to adopt Christianity by European colonialist.
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Santeria
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Yoruba slaves in Cuba fused Vodou and Christianity.
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Barriers to Understanding
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-Repression caused traditions to be practiced in secret
-Approaching understanding from non-spiritual perspective of Western science -Spiritual lifeways are shared orally—no scriptures to be studied -Some lifeways are tied to the land—only meaningful within context |
