Across
- 2. cutting initiation ritual that was performed by the adult tribesmen
- 6. Symbolic Death, Spiritual Rebirth
- 8. No literary tradition, no suggestion of evolutionary development from a previous or earlier religion
- 11. something in the spiritual realm (not natural)
- 14. The foundation aboriginal religion
- 15. A tribal or personal association with an animal or plant as a source of identity power
- 17. The whole of existence is sacred
- 18. Prohibitions of certain behaviors for fear of dangerous contact with spiritual powers
- 20. no literary tradition, common in pre-scientific and pre-technological cultures
Down
- 1. Projection is sought by the power of special objects
- 3. the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group
- 4. time not thought of in terms of linear "distance and inaccessibility"
- 5. natives to Australia, unaffected by outsiders for 200 years, early traditions still remain intact
- 7. Sacred instrument that recreates the sound of the deities and is forbidden for women to use
- 9. the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.
- 10. The natural world is alive with spirits
- 12. supernatural beings that roamed the Earth
- 13. a routine
- 16. The natural form in which the Ancestor appeared in the dreaming, may be an animal, a rock formation, or other landscape feature
- 19. Came first, prior to the "universal" of formal religions