Friday, January 18, 2013

Definitions

Taboo- A custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.

Totem- A natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and adopted by it as an emblem.

Trickster- A person who cheats or deceives people.

Vision quest - a rite of passage in some native american passages.

Divination-The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means.

Pantheism-  A doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.

Polytheism- The belief in or worship of more than one god.

Monotheism- The doctrine or belief that there is only one God.

Revelation- something in which such a divine disclosure is contained, such as the Bible.

Transcendence- a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience.

Empathy- The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

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