Religion Final Exam Quran Koran Primal Religions Native American Common features of primal religions oral tradition animism and shamanism How do shamans enter trances to visit the spirit world By using pschyadelic drugs self torture ritual drumming dancing or a severe illness near death experience Wakan Tonka The Sioux Indian name for the highest God Quanah Parker chief representative of the peyote way Native American Church what the peyote way is now referred as Black Elk Sioux Indian medicine man His plain Indian religion has vastly spread Most common religion of American Indians today Christianity Hinduism Samsara Wheel of birth and death Bhakti way of loving devotion to God The Vedas the oldest Hindu scriptures Atman the individual conscience self or soul Krishna is an incarnation of whom Vishnu Moksha liberation from the wheel of birth and death Swastika solar symbol of good luck means it is well Shiva the destroyer god Kali blood drinking goddess bad aspect of the divine Brahma is the creator god Vishnu the sustainer god Ganesha the Son of Shiva function is to remove obstacles Bhagavad Gita means the song of God an epic poem that take place on an epic field most of the song is in the form of dialogue Mantra sacred sound formula Mandala sacred diagram Brahman the absolute reality Brahma is the creator Sanskrit language that The Vedas are written in Indus River Valley Valley in NW Indian where Hinduism was started Buddhism Theravada means way of the elders Nirvana means liberation The Three Marks of Existence are suffering impermanence no eternal self The Buddhist doctrine of Interdependent Origination everything is everything Bodhisattva means enlightened being one who vows not to enter nirvana Four Noble Truths eightfold path is the fourth noble truth the call of suffering is desire Satori that moment of awakening Sangha means community a principle of Buddhism Karma means what goes around comes around action causes cause effect Taoism Lao Tzu the founder of Taoism Tao Teh Ching the book of the way and its power Yin and yang eternal dynamic balance between 2 complimentary principles such as ying and yang A repeating motif of gentle strength in the Tao Teh Ching is flowing water Know that Taoism has a school that cultivates sexual energy Confucianism Jen means fellow feeling or Empathy Shu the principle of reciprocity treat others how you want to be treated The Analects I Ching is the Chinese book of oracles associated with Confucius one of the oldest books known to man kind Zoroastrianism Ahura Mazda one and only god means the wise one Zoroaster s name is Zarathustra which means The shining one Judaism Torah means law referring to the first 5 books of the Old Testament Messhiach same meaning as the word Christos means the anointed one Christianity Meaning of Christos same meaning as the word Messhiach anointed one Emperor Constantine of Rome legalized Christianity Islam Abraham is patriarch of Judaism and Islam Islam is the name of the religion it is an insult to refer to religion as Muslim Khadija the widow that Muhammad married Allah Arabic name for God Kaaba monument in the city center that you visit during Hajj Hajj the pilgrimage Shari a Hadith Reports of the doings and saying of Muhammad Quran the holy scripture Ali was the Fourth of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs after Muhammad died was the cousin son and son in law of Muhammad Martian religion Grok means to eat drink
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