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Calumet
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A long-stemmed sacred pipe used primarily by many native peoples of North America; it is smoked as a token of peace
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Divination
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A foretelling of the future or a look into the past; a discovery of the unknown by magical means.
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Holistic
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Organic, intergrated; indicating a complete system, greater than the sum of its parts; here, refers to a culture whose various elements (art, music, social behavior) may all have religious meaning.
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Libation
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The act of pour a liquid as an offering to a god.
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Shaman
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A human being who contacts and attempts to manipulate the power of spirits for the tribe or group.
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Sympathetic magic
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An attempt to influence the outcome of an event through an action that has an apparent similarity to the desired result-for example, throwing water into the air to produce rain, or burning an enemy's fingernail clippings to bring sickness to that enemy.
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Taboo
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A strong social prohibition (Tongan: tabu; Hawaiian: kapu)>
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Totem
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An animal or image of an animal that is considered to be related by blood to a family or clan and is its guardian or symbol.
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____is the term for the belief that everything in the universe is somehow alive.
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Animism
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Inspired by oral religions, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson proposes that we foster biophilia, a______.
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Love of life
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The circle sometimes symbolic of the nature and its processes. Black Elk, an Uglala Sioux; points this out in reference to the circular tents of his people called_____.
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Tipis
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A bias against the study of oral religions up until the twentieth century is____
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The assumption that they are not complex.
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In the worldview of animism____
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There are no clear bounderies between the natural and the supernatural.
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To believe that nature is full of spirits implies that___
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Human beings must treat all things with care.
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Sacred time is____
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Cyclical, returning to its origins for renewal.
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