Hinduism and Buddhism both started from the ancient land of India, which at the time was a powerful country. ... The Aryans just moved into a new land, and they would then start a religion, Gautama had left his castle, and would later begin a new religion. . The Aryans had moved from the Caspian Sea searching for new land, which they would later find. ... He saw a poor man, ill man, dead man, and a monk. ...
If the majority of the people were converting, then this jeopardized the balance between the dead, the living, and the unborn. ... Pages ) The British, attaining a foreign land had a very different religion from the Nigerians and they set laws to what their beliefs were. ... Before the British took over Nigerian land, the Nigerian people had their own religion and their own gods to worship. ... Since Olunde was away in a foreign land Elesin thought that he would fall for their customs and laws. ... Olunde was in Nigeria only to bury his father because he thought that he was alre...
He imitates the dead and tells comforting messages from the dead to the living. ... The marriage customs of the Yoruba permitted polygamy and incestuous marriages, as well as the practice of marrying a dead male relative's widow and adopting his children. ... Europeans also insisted upon burying the dead in communal graveyards rather than the traditional Yoruba practice of burying them in the house. As a result it interfered with communication between the Yoruba and their dead relatives The Yoruba, whose main occupation is farming, considers yams important symbols of thanksgiving. ... ...
Before it was over, it had swept the colonies of the Eastern seaboard, transforming the social and religious life of land. ... Many people that attended church complained about the "dead dogs," which were those priests that made extensive and dull sermons from the head of the church. ...
The Aztec society was very religious, and the predominant aspect of their religion demanded human sacrifice to insure the fertility of their land, indeed the continuation of the world. ... They may have thought that the dead person's strength and bravery passed to anyone who ate the flesh. ... Prosperity consisted of land and the men to work it. ... The Inca empire had their land divided up into very exact parts. ...
In order to cultivate their grains, herd their cattle, and hunt, the Zulu spread across the land (Gluckman 820). ... The king was also responsible for the idea, that to mourn the dead of any but the royal household was forbidden. ...
Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...
In the opening of "Oedipus Rex," as king of his land, Oedipus accepts the challenge of saving the people of his country from a plague. ... We had a leader, once, over this land, Called Laius- The man is dead; and now we are clearly bidden to bring to account certain his murders." (pg 4) Oedipus proceeds to chastise the citizens of the land for letting this crime go so long without investigating it. ...
This is said to represent that she fed on corpses while the earth was consuming the dead. ... When the Spaniards invaded the land and intermixed with the indigenous people, Coatlalopeuh was desexed which led to one of the biggest figures in not only Chicana religion, but world religion. ...
These people were the first to show us existence of religious beliefs with the way they buried their dead. ... Bronze became so widely used across the land that now that era is referred to as the Bronze Age (3000 B.C. to 1000 B.C.) ... They built huge pyramids to bury the dead in and you were mummified and buried with all your belongings and riches. ...
When there was enough solid earth, he let go of the chain and landed on the newly formed land that became know as the holy city of Ile-Ife. ... The eggun, the spirits of the dead, are honoured before the orishas. ... The eggun are not only the spirit of one's dead ancestors, but also the spirits of the dead elders who belong to the same Ile in which one has been initiated. ...
