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Australia & Oceania & Primal Religions

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The Dreaming   The foundation of aboriginal religion  
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Papua New Guinea   Worlds 2nd largest island; western half belongs to Indonesia; gained independence in 1975  
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Initiation Rituals   meant to teach young Aborigines essential truths about their world and how to act within it; symbolic death of childhood to make way for spiritual rebirth  
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Taboo   the concept of certain things and activities are set aside for special groups and forbidden to others  
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Orishas   the hundreds of various Yoruba deities  
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Maori   the indigenous people of New Zealand; they make up 10% of the poplulation  
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Micronesia   "small islands"; Kiribait-Tarawa; Nauru-Yaren; U.S. Territories- 2,000 islands (Wake & Bikini(radioactive))  
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Totem   natural form of Ancestor which appeared in Dreaming  
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Yoruba- cosmology depicts reality as being divided into two separate worlds:   Heaven & Earth  
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Yoruba   Oyo Kingdom; have lived in urban societies since the 5th century  
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Able Tasman   The first European to discover the Maori  
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Yoruba- trickster figure   Esu  
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Olorun   The supreme god of the Yoruba, believed to be distant and unapproachable  
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Sun Dance   1 of the basic rituals; lodge built at the axis mundi and serves a link between heaven and earth  
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Lakota   common sign language; massacred at wounded knee; Plains Indians; two basic rituals: vision quest & sun dance  
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Winter Counts   calender; Wanka Tanka  
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Lakota- trickster figure   Inktomi  
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Cargo Cults   when tribal societies are exposed to technology and western goods- magical thinking and rituals used to explain  
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Wankan Tanka   Plains Indians; inktomi spider; moral lessons; death- soul departs in 4 directions; winter counts calendar  
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Vision Quest   purifies and gives access to spiritual power  
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Melanesia   "black islands"; earliest migrants from Asia; Fiji- Suva; Solomon Islands- Honiara; Vanuatu- Porta Vila; Exports- copra, sugar, gold, and oil  
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Easter Islands   named on Easter Sunday; mysterious 600 heads carved from volcanic rock  
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Axis Mundi   an item (typically a tree) that represents the center of the universe; sun dance is preformed around this  
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Aborigines   believed in the dreaming; native people of australia; aboriginal religion- process of recreating mythic past of the Dreaming to obtain sacred power  
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James Cook   1770- "discovered Australia; began to kill aboriginals  
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Ayers Rock   Uluru- aboriginal name; red rock mass in northern territory, australia; largest monolith in the world;  
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Diviner   a person who claims to see the future by supernatural means  
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Polynesia   "many islands"; New Zealand, Hawaii, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Tahiti, Tonga, Tuvalu, US Territories- Midway islands, American Samoa, Jarvis Island, Palmyra ("wet America")  
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Half-Casts   a person whose parents are of different race  
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Stolen Generation   the aboriginal people forcibly removed from their families as children to be brought up by white foster families or to be put in an institution  
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Pidgin English   non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English  
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