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Primal Religious TraditionsCh. 2
The Dreaming Totem
Religious Life Ritual Taboo Initiation
Australian Aborigines
Cosmology Heaven & Earth
Purpose of religion Maintain balance
Yoruba
Gods & Ancestors Olorun, the High God Orishas, lesser deities
Orisha-nla Ogun Esu
Ancestors of the Living Ritual Practioners
Yoruba
Lakota Wakan Tanka Vision quest Sun Dance
Axis mundi
North American Plains Indians
Influenced by Toltec tradition Quetzalcoatl Teotihuacan
Cosmology Age of the Fifth Sun Four Directions & axis mundi
Aztecs
Human sacrifice Mastery of Language
Aztecs
Aztec Empire to Catholic Mexico Hernan Cortes Fall of Tenochtitlan and the Aztec empire
Virgin of Guadalupe Dia de los Muertos
Aztecs
Tenochtitlan
Day of the Dead
