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