RELI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sweat Lodge, Wakan Tanka, Ceremonial Pipe

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELI 100
• Professor: David Dakake

Document Summary

There is no word for religion in the sioux language. Everything they did was religious, nothing was unreligious. Sign = humanly agreed upon connection between two things (ex. green light means go); Symbol: an ontological connection between one level of reality and another; the this is not what a symbol is manifestation of a higher level of reality into a lower level of reality; not mutually agreed upon. Diabolein: to cut/separate (the devil separates us from god, heaven and each other) Black feather represent the direction of west (the image of the divine mercy); as god is. White feather represents north (purity and detachment); god is beyond all corruption, we. Red feather represent east (wise and knowledge); red represents the sun rising (light); Is detached and attached in the name of god, shows love and knowledge. Animism: worship of natural forms; what the europeans called native american religion when they first came to the americas.