Aborigines are believed to have evolved as modern man in Africa about 190,000 years ago, moved into the Middle East by 120,000 years ago, then into Asia, and on to Australia at least 60,000 years ago. ... After modern man moved into Europe and the Americas cultures started to develop while Australians remained isolated on their island still practicing older techniques. ... As Blashfield studied, healing is still used today, along with modern medicine. ... During these ceremonies they chant, sing, and dance for Ancestral beings asking for enough food and rain. Initiation of boys and girls into ...

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Ceremonial dances are made to the spirits of the dead in order that they will reciprocate by sending rain. ... In the course of these ceremonies the masked dancers become identified with the spirits they represent. ... Religious performances of song, dance and drama, coupled with traditional poetry and oral histories, reinforce Pueblo values and cosmological views. Although unified by a number of common core elements, like the kachina cult, there is considerable variation in modern Pueblo religion. ... I hope that the Indians keep their religious practices despite the modern era. ...

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The play opens with children dancing in the woods, an obvious sin according to the puritans. ... Abbey leads all the girls who danced in accusing every woman in town who had ever looked at them funny of being a witch. ... Now once again, even in this modern age, crusade type battles are still raging on in Isreal. ...

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After the Israelite journey across the Red Sea-led by the brother she protected-Miriam led the women in the dance of triumph and victory. ... Judaism evolves as modern society evolves. Judiasm's evolution has changed the religion's views of different aspects of their beliefs, especially the religion's view of women and their role in modern society. ...

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In modern terms, religion covers a much greater spectrum of meanings. ... It can be a highly organised society that sets itself apart, with its own unique culture expressed in visual symbols, dance and performance, philosophical standards, legendary and imaginative stories, formal ceremonies, meditative techniques, and detailed rules of ethical behavior and law. ...

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India's physical, religious and racial variety is as important as the history of how it become what "Modern India." ... Common practices are now a part of most religious faiths and all communities share many of the festivals that mark each year with music, dance and feasting. ...

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