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- 3. orisha who contains both good and evil properties which makes him a trickster figure and also mediates between heaven and earth.
- 5. primary means for a person in the Lakota Indians to gain access to spiritual power to ensure greater access to activities such as hunting, warfare, or curing the ill.
- 6. For the Yoruba religion, it is the invisible home of the gods and ancestors.
- 7. Great Spirit or Great Mysterious, the supreme reality for the Lakota Indians.
- 9. primal people of middle North America
- 10. the supreme God of the Yoruba and the ultimate source of power in the Universe.
- 11. In the Yoruba religion, is the art of being able to interpret an individual’s future.
- 13. Mesoamerican creator god worshiped at Teotihuacan.
- 15. Capital city of the Aztec empire, known as present day Mexico City.
- 19. many deities the Yoruba worship.
- 20. Lakota ritual for the celebration of New Year which functions as preparation for the hunting season.
- 22. the Lakota Spiritual leader who helps the process of the Vision Quest and interprets the content after. Also the leader of the Sun Dance.
- 24. primal people of central Africa
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- 1. important human figures know throughout the Yoruba society and are now worshipped by a large number of people.
- 2. the land mass that the first Indians migrated over.
- 4. sacred number in the Plains religion.
- 8. primal people of Austrialia
- 12. center of the Universe.
- 14. supernatural beings that gave shape to the landscape and created the various forms of life; including the first human beings.
- 16. a natural form which has spiritual significance.
- 17. mythic period of the Aborigines where the world was created by the Ancestors.
- 18. primal people of Mexico.
- 21. social structure which dictates that certain activities or things are set aside for specific members and are forbidden for others.
- 23. Trickster figure of the Lakota Indians who is a mediator between the supernatural and human worlds.