Primal Religions

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Primal Religions
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Primal

1. Priorto universal religions. From prehistory
2. Primarybasic features that belong to all
   religions

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Animism

• Latin for spirit
• Spiritual power in all things
• (Think animate)

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Animism

• No single founder
• Developed simultaneously in different parts of
  the world and currently practiced world-wide, but
  most common in areas of Africa and the Americas
• Mostly an oral tradition of story-telling
• Rituals tend to take place outdoors in nature
  conducted by a Shaman, Medicine Man, or Medicine
  Woman

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Mana
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Fetish
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Taboo/Tapu/Kapu
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Totem
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Omens
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High God Sky-god
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Living Dead
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Medicine Man

• Priest
• Medium
• Diviner
• Healer
• Shaman
• NOT witch, sorcerer, or magician

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Cargo Cult
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Dimensions (Aspects) of Religion

1. Ritual (Practice)
2. Experiential (mysterium tremendum et
   fascionosans emotional)
3. Mythic (Stories/narratives with sacred
   significance)
4. Doctrinal (beliefs philosophies)
5. Ethical (commandments actions legal)
6. Social (Institutional Community)
7. Material (Artistic)

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Maori

• Te Kore energy, potential, the void, nothingness
  
• Te Po form, the dark, the night
• Te Ao-marama emergence, light and reality,
  dwelling place of humans

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• Ko Te Kore (the void, energy, nothingness,
  potential)
• Te Kore-te-whiwhia (the void in which nothing is
  possessed)
• Te Kore-te-rawea (the void in which nothing is
  felt)
• Te Kore-i-ai (the void with nothing in union)
• Te Kore-te-wiwia (the space without boundaries)

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• Na Te Kore Te Po (from the void the night)
• Te Po-nui (the great night)
• Te Po-roa (the long night)
• Te Po-uriuri (the deep night)
• Te Po-kerekere (the intense night)
• Te Po-tiwhatiwha (the dark night)
• Te Po-te-kitea (the night in which nothing is
  seen)

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• Te Po-tangotango (the intensely dark night)
• Te Po-whawha (the night of feeling)
• Te Po-namunamu-ki-taiao (the night of seeking the
  passage to the world)
• Te Po-tahuri-atu (the night of restless turning)
• Te Po-tahuri-mai-ki-taiao (the night of turning
  towards the revealed world)

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• Ki te Whai-ao (to the glimmer of dawn)
• Ki te Ao-marama (to the bright light of day)
• Tihei mauri-ora (there is life)