Final Identify Examples of the Following Concepts

Inspirational divination:

direct contact (contact with entity) spiritual experience

Inspiritational divination examples:

necromancy (ancestor contacts), oneiromancy (dreams), possession (ASC by deity), presentiments (feelings), medium, and prophecy

Noninspirational divination:

Reading through things and magical ways to divine

Noninspirational divination examples:

apantomancy (animal contacts), omens (conditions), ornithomancy (bird signs), aleuromancy (flour), astrology, dowsing, flipping a coin, graphology (handwriting), haruspiccation (animal entrails), magic 8 ball, ordeals (pain tests), ouija board and tarot cards, palmistry, phrenology (shape of head), scapulamancy (burned scapula), and tasseography (tea leaves)

Fortuitous divination:

Seeing signs and happen without conscious effort

Fortuitous divination examples:

apantomancy (animal contacts), omens (conditions), ormithomancy (bird signs), necromancy (ancestor contacts), oneiromancy (dreams), possession (ASC by deity), and presentiments (feelings)

Deliberate divination:

What we were looking for and what someone sets out to do

Deliberate divination examples:

aleuromancy (flour), astrology, dowsing, flipping a coin, graphology (handwriting), haruspiccation (animal entrails), Magic 8 ball, ordeals (pain tests), ouija board and tarot cards, palmistry, phrenology (shape of head), scapulamancy (burned scapula), tasseography (tea leaves), medium, prophecy

Spirits:

Individualized and not localized in human world, less powerful than gods, and can be friendly or harmful

Spirits examples:

Dani spirits in nature and guardians, Ojibwa and Shoshone guardian spirits, Qur’an Jinn (made from fire without smoke, many are trouble makers and are attracted to blood, childbirth, marriage), angels and demons in Abrahamic traditions, incubi and succubae (have sex with ppl = evil results)

Gods:

More powerful than spirits, control major forces of nature, anthropomorphic, can be influenced, human behavior reflects the gods’ orders and commandments

Gods examples:

Thor, Odin, Loki

Goddesses examples:

Minerva (roman goddess of art, wisdom, craftsmen), Venus (lunar cycle and fertility), Isis (Ancient Egypt, Great mother or Queen of Heaven, Wife and sister of Osiris, Mother of Horus, family and nature), Kali in Hinduism (creativity and nature, dark and naked surrounded by dead and skulls, destroyer of evil, brings wisdom and transformation, 50 skulls = letters in Sanskrit, brings Shiva to life), Mary (Emic pers: Not a goddess, Etic pers: Maybe goddess, parallels to indigenous goddesses)

Pantheon examples:

Norse Mythology, Roman pantheon, Greek pantheon

Supreme god:

Odin, Olorun (Orisha, Yoruba), Zues

Attribute god:

Zeus, Posidon, Athena

Avatar:

Orisha in the Yoruba religion, Buddha, Jesus, Vushnu (Hinduism)

Witchcraft Examples:

Azande, Navaho Witchcraft ( reluctant to talk about it, grave robbers, meet in caves and practice cannibalism, incest, necrophilia, immoral, antisocial, greedy, enforce social norms),

Syncretism Examples:

Vodou (includes Haiti, Lwa (Orisha), chromolithographs) and Santeria (includes Cuba, Orisha (infleunced by Spanish and Yoruba), Regla de Ocha (Rule of Orisha), Animal sacrifices)

Nativistic Movement:

Return to the past

Nativistic Movement Examples:

Shawnee Prophet 1805 and Ghost Dance 1890

Revivalistic Movement:

Attempt to revive what is perceived as a past golden age

Revivalistic Movement Examples:

Irish Republic and Celtic Symbols

New Religious Movements Examples:

Neo-paganism (revival of pre-Christian religious traditions practiced in contemporary time) an example being Wicca and Scientology