oral traditions and wicca
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- Deism
- there is god, but he's watching and doesn't care
- Atheism
- no god
- Myth
- a story to explain something; ex) creation myth
- Taboo
- places you don't go, things you don't say; unwritten law that's religiously enforced
- Litha
- When god is most powerful
- Ancestor veneration
- Honor ancestors, because they are wise and can help you commune with the spirits
- Primal
- basic, primitive
- Shaman
- priest, raised to be priest and inherit rituals
- Wiccan gods
- female-dominated deity, mother earth-goddess always present but father god not always there; both can't exist outside of each other
- Wiccans
- Consider themselves witches, but not all witches consider themselves wiccans. Wiccans worhip nature. Believe whatever they want. Based on early celtic rituals
- Wiccan rituals
- Witches draw around them a magic circle which is their sacred space where they'll commune with the elements. They do this in covens.
- Pantheism
- everything is god
- Aboriginal
- indigenous, native group
- Divine source
- There's a divinity to where everything came from and the cause of everything
- Sacred
- Holy
- Key traits of oral traditions
- divine source, doctrine regarding nature, spiritual method, formal embodiment of traditions
- Animism
- All nature's forces have a spirit; some have more than others
- Ritual
- Formal religious ceremony
- Spiritual method
- ex. starvation to move up in spiritual rank
- Other traits of Oral traditions
- 8 more, not always there; Animism, magic, taboo, totemism, sacrifice, rites of passage, ancestor veneration, myth
- Sacrifice
- Sacrifice anything that's helpful or that the spirits may desire
- Divination
- foretelling the future, reading the signs
- Formal embodiment of traditions
- The rituals are really the tradition of that life
- Monotheism
- belief in one god
- Creation myth
- explanation of beginning: has darkness, water, light, and the 4 elements
- Totem
- Relationship to animal that you tribe has an affinity towards;ex)hunters to wolves
- Oral traditions
- no documents, we make assumptions about their traditions, prehistorically-based faith
- Samhain
- Halloween; new year. Their highest holy day, death of god and curtain b/w death and life is the thinnest.
- Yule
- Winter solstice; birth of god, new life. longest night of the year, so they burn the biggest log and it lasts through the night
- Doctrine regarding nature
- Nature's part of the divine source and humans have to commune with nature
- Native American
- Indigenous people of Americas. Ex) Inuits, Aztecs
- Wiccan calendar
- 8 holidays; Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh, Mabon
- Agnostic
- They don't know if there's a god or not.
- Wiccan magic
- Wiccan form of prayer;They can't hurt anyone with spells:"Any harm none,do what you will". If they hurt someone they will get it back 3x
- Theism
- There is god.
- Rites of passage
- changes in body, ritual marking transition in life; made tribe more sustainable
- Indigenous
- native, naturally found there
- Covens
- Most are made of up to 12 people so it's easier to come up with a consensus. No limit
- Polytheism
- belief in more than one god. ex) greeks and egyptians
- Magic
- An attempt to control nature to change the world around you; coerce nature. ex. vuudu. a "prayer". deals with animists
- Monism
- Everything is part of the whole and works together