ANT-2430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Smriti, American Anthropological Association, Aum Shinrikyo
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Hinduism, judaism, islam: neo-paganism: reviving old non-christian religions (wicca is part of this, but can include. Isla(cid:373)=(cid:271)elief, musli(cid:373)=p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e (cid:894)t(cid:396)a(cid:374)slates to (cid:862)so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e (cid:449)ho is su(cid:271)(cid:373)issi(cid:448)e(cid:863)(cid:895) combination of merciful and compassionate) Islam, christianity, and judaism all believe: one god created the universe, god is masculine and fatherly, in charge of cosmology (heaven, hell, earth), god created everything and then made. Adam and eve, satan/shaten tempted eve and then adam, adam and eve only had sons, each had a prophet named abraham, called abrahamic religions. Jews are still waiting for messiah: christian messiah is jesus. Islam believes in jesus (issa (pronounced ee-sah), but mohammad is the most important prophet (no messiah) 9-15: ha(cid:396)(cid:374)e(cid:396), (cid:862) the ou(cid:374)d of rushi(cid:374)g wate(cid:396)(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:272)hapte(cid:396)(cid:895), the way of the shaman (book) 9-22: hinduism goes back to at least 2000 bce; written down in sanskrit, came from indo-european migration to india. Indo-european is a language group consisting of north india, persia, tocharian (extinct.
