REL 1000 : Religion Exam 1
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Chapter 1 & 2: primal & bygone religions. Religions in an original state, that is, confined to a relatively small cultural setting, isolated, not branching from other religions, and not exported. 1. Magic: producing a desired effect through specific actions (hunting magic). Shaman: a person regarded as having access to, and influence in the world of the supernatural. (healers, sorcerers, magicians, fetish priests, etc. ) function can be magical or religious. Neanderthal graves: burial customs include symbolism and some signs of coercive measures (magic) bones or body being covered with red paint, crouching position, offerings, tools. Hippocrates: popular belief of greek gods were based on hippocrates"s interpretations of homer"s writings. Dea roma: rome"s personification of itself as a god. Ishtar: (sumerian) universal goddess of fertility and warrior. Gilgamesh epic: sumerian flood story-similar to the bible"s story of the flood. Optimus maximus: nickname for the greatest and biggest original temple of. Zeus: originally great sky father (from an invading country)-olympus, lykaios,
