But in myths across cultures, humans often have the ability to challenge death, to follow in its footsteps and retrieve their dead loved ones. ... As such, there is always an afterlife where the dead go to continue living after deaths in mythology. ... In the Native American spirit worlds, the afterlife resembles the land of the living, with the Iroquois dead "having a great a dance festival" and the Algonquin island "always late spring, with blooming flowers and cloudless skies", which implies that the afterlife is very close, both in location and in terms of contact, to t...

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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. ...

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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...

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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. ... ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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At the end of one's life, after living the commandments and the Torah, modern Judaism allows that one will have a deliverance to the promised land, or what would be conceived as the ultimate holy. ... Jesus is believed to have died through crucifixion and then resurrected from the dead by God to illustrate forgiveness of human sin, the conquering of death, and denial of Satan. This act of redemption would be visualized by those who have faith in God, who then would likewise be resurrected from the dead to ascend into heaven. ...

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They assume the souls of the dead go to another part of the universe where they have a new existence carrying on everyday activities like they were still alive. ... Ceremonial dances are made to the spirits of the dead in order that they will reciprocate by sending rain. ... The use of local plants for Navajo ceremonies illustrates the need for the Navajos to remain on their sacred land. ...

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For example, when Sam wakes up one day on the Abrolhos islands smelling his dead father right beside him, he knows that there are spiritual forces at work and yet he cannot tell "which way the shadow's fallen". Thus, he goes to work as normal, thinking "today wasn't his day to be worried", and is "dead wrong", losing the fingers of his hand. ... When Fish drowns and is apparently raised from the dead, the fact that their miracle turns sour as Fish is now mentally retarded causes them to lose their faith in God, as Oriel blames God for the tragedy. ...

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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. ...

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My intrigue with the land of the sun begun many years ago and so I have always been well versed in its traditions and cultural mores. ... The Shinto tradition has a story of creation that states two kami (the Japanese equivalent to gods) descended from the heavens and stirred the ocean and created the land and the kami of the sun, Amaterasu, who later gives birth to the first emperor (117). ... This may explain why women have always played a larger role in the Shinto traditions than in most of the greater religious traditions of the land. ...

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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...

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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. ...

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Wigglesworth also brings up the sin of lust in the passage, "how unfit am I to sanctify a Sabbath, with such a carnal heart, such dead and dull affections, such distracting thoughts as possess and fill my sacrament?... Mather also gives his own evidence of people going into the dark side, saying "yea, more than one twenty have confessed that they have signed unto a book, which the Devil showed them and engaged in his hellish design of bewitching and ruining our land." ...

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No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flee, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild. ... If something (namely God) was once seen as the only explanation to all that was good, and now is perceived as dead or a lie, it tends to make people reflect on ancient explanations, question these explanations, and generate new ideas. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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Specifically, the Puritan colonies were working to please God, and did such in a very strict and disciplined manner trying to keep the colonists clean of sin.10 Pirates avoided the strict religious colonies, like New England, because of the Puritan's involvement in the maritime world.11 On land in the New England and Chesapeake colonies, some of the most prosecuted crimes were sins, like drunkenness, swearing, and theft. ...

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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. ...

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Outline I. Introduction to Africa II. Traditional African Rituals and Contemporary Times III. Mental Health Perspective IV. Conclusion Introduction to Africa The Continent of Africa is made up of diverse ethnic groups and culture that if we were to demarcate a boundary for each group they will be so compacted together making it hard to read. ...

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