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