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World Religions (Five points of interest (Mythology (Types of creation…

- - - - Institutionalized Religion
      - Organic religion
  - - - Sacred
      - Characters
      - Non-specific past
      - Explains where humanity came from
    - - God created the world
      - Emergence
      - Creation from Chaos
      - World parent
        
        "Sky and Earth"
        
        parts of world parent
      - Earth Diver
  - - - Marriage
      - Birth
      - Baptism
      - Entrance into Manhood/Womanhood
    - - Sacrifice
      - Mourning
    - - Link religious ideas and practices
      - Sense of community
      - Protection from Gods
      - Provide structure for:
        
        Redemption and salvation
        
        Entrance to other world
        
        Participation of/in divine
  - - - attempt to create a relationship between the sacred and holy with congregation
    - - Allegory
      - Personifications
      - Figures
      - analogies
      - Metaphors
      - Parables
      - Relics
      - Signs
      - Emblems
  - - - Lie outside the realm of knowable reality
      - Universal among human cultures
      - Hidden world
      - Infinite variety of realms
      - Inhabited by other beings
    - - life is complex
      - Full of aspects difficult to explain
        
        Why does it rain?
        
        Why do some people suffer?
        
        Why do people die?
        
        Why are those most deserving fall to bed luck or misfortune
    - - Two cross cutting continuum
      - Considering...
        
        Effects to Humans good/bad
        
        Positive and negative
        
        Independence from humans
        
        Inter-related
        
        Positive/Independent beings
        
        Animal spirit guides
        
        Deities
        
        God in christianity, judaism, islam
        
        Positive/dependent beings
        
        Negative/independent beings
        
        Satan
        
        malevolent spirits
        
        Negative/dependent beings
- - - - Lowest level
        
        Family and friends
      - Highest level
        
        government
  - - - System of belief
- - - - stories
      - Framework
  - - - Data
        
        creates world view or belief system
      - hierarchy