of the Olmec’s society‚ under religious contexts. They had several different gods who incorporated an animal of some sort: serpent‚ bird‚ dragon‚ jaguar‚ etc. (Cartwright). The were-jaguar‚ a hybrid of jaguar and human‚ is associated with the shamans or shaman-kings and the transformation they undertook (“Were-Jaguar”). These hybrids have taken form in the artwork and statues of the Olmec. In the Snite Museum‚ there is a particular Olmec sculpture that illustrates the transformation from man to a jaguar
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Religion can be described as a shared set of fundamental beliefs and practices. “The Aztec religion was a complex set of beliefs‚ rituals and gods that helped the Aztec/Mexica to make sense of their world‚ reality and death (Maestri Nicolette‚ 2013)”. Today‚ we will explore the famous Aztec world of gods‚ sacrifice‚ and magic in an attempt to better understand their culture and worldview. The traditional Aztec religion was on that focused on the services provided by a series of gods‚ all to whom
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2008). The music at these events is more likely to have instrumentation and performance qualities similar to those of ancient Mayan tradition‚ such as the use of a shaman singing a ritual chant. This chant departs significantly from post Encounter musical theory‚ involving the singing of a single tone that drops to a lower pitch when the shaman pauses briefly to take a breath (Olsen & Sheehy‚ 2008). Other shamanic musical performances include dancing and certain types of dress‚ such as a rainmaking
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The Wampanoag and Calvinist: a Parable of Misdirection "Caleb ’s Crossing" by Geraldine Brooks outlines the clash between faith and culture of the Wampanoag and Calvinist people; that is a symbolic parable of the misdirection of humanity and its fall from the natural world to its ideal worship of materialism. Throughout the novel‚ we see the Wampanoag ’s polytheistic faith of gratitude‚ appreciation‚ and interconnectedness with the natural world‚ clash with the Calvinist ’s dogmatic and zealous
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the names of all illicit sexual partners they ever had” (Cultural‚ 1992). The peyote hunt ends with arriving at Wirikuta where the individual has to hunt for deer and gather peyote plant to last them a year so that they can have visions where the shaman will ensure their regeneration and cleanse of their soul. Myerhoff includes that “the peyote hunt is a unifying theme in Huichol existence which serves both as a source of ritualized catharsis and as the focus of three dominant symbols in Huichol
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Ecological Restoration How can we envision an ecological restoration of both physical environment and philosophical/spiritual thought models? Overpopulation‚ overexploitation‚ and human consumption are all contributing to the downfall of our now extremely misused planet. All organisms are now being exposed to drastic environmental changes‚ ones that our ancestors have never experienced. The stability of the Earth has been decreasing severely in the past few centuries because of mankind’s impact
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explain in a simple sentence‚ but this is the safest one‚ without being incorrect according to Eliade. Even though his book is fantastic and loved by many‚ its problematic. He describes shamanism using unreliable sources‚ he never got involved with shamans‚ and he did not do research on any tribe. Other scholars and researches disagree with his findings. Eliade claims that his writing is truthful due to all the references he provides‚ however he fails to realize that his work is not completely credible
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Religious Impulse - the universal urge to believe in something beyond ourselves. Credo - a philosophy or a set of beliefs. Ethnicity - a person’s origins‚ race‚ or culture‚ but not necessarily his or her religion. Totems - a projective entity in the form of an animal‚ natural object‚ or plant. Oracy - the ability to express oneself fluently in speech and to understand a spoken language. Elder - a person venerated for age and wisdom. Spiritual - concerned with sacred or religious
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Film Response on Mending Ways: The Canela Indians of Brazil The film that I choose to do a respond on is the film “Mending Ways: The Canela Indians of Brazil.” In the film‚ the anthropologist‚ Dr. William H. Crocker from the Smithsonian Institute of Anthropologist studied the Canela tribe for over 30 years. The film is divided into two parts which is the first is about how he studied the tribe and its culture. A few years later‚ merely about 20 years‚ he studied the change in the community which
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There are a couple of critical issues when it comes to the study of what a religious tradition says. The first is to make a distinction between the oral tradition and the written tradition. Many well-developed‚ world religions have an established canon of sacred texts‚ as well as an oral tradition. In some cases‚ this also has come to be written down. For instance‚ in Judaism‚ there is the tradition of the Oral Torah and the written Torah. The written Torah has become the Tanakh or the Hebrew
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