Compare and explain how certain themes emerged in early religious traditions and persist today.
The description that all indigenous religions are similar, primitive and irrelevant, are some of the stereotypical adjectives used to discredit them in modern society. In this essay, I will compare and explain how certain themes manifest in early religious traditions and persist today. First, I will examine the similar themes that exist in early religious traditions. Next, I will analyze how the new methods used to procedure food brought about social stratification among men and women. Lastly, the enduring influence these early traditions have on traditions in around the world today.
It is quite mind-boggle to conceive that the ancient religions existed in isolation from each other, many continents away, yet many similar themes run throughout their worldviews. Ellwood begins by telling us that “The indigenous religious traditions had no developed writing systems, so they transmitted their way of life from one generation to the next through art, myth and dance.”1 Evans-Pritchard introduces us to the Nuer, a cattle-herding people dwelling in the Nilotic Sudan. Like most ethnic religions, their beliefs are passed down through numerous rituals.2 Depending on the significance of the rituals it may be accompanied by dance, music and story-telling. Now let’s review how these stories though thousands of miles away are so similar. “Considered the most prominent interpretation is the images that that are represented in ritual and myth are the stories of creation, the beginning and how humans came to be,”3 says Ellwood. Since there is good then there must be bad, so the idea that a moral enforcer, god or deity exits. For example the Poso of the Sulawesi
A family prays at the Zoroastrian temple in Chakchak
Island in Indonesia believe that the creator made mankind mortal because they are indignant.4 The Wahungwe Makoni of Zimbabwe believes that lesser deity Mwuetsi defied the high God Maori, resulting in the cycle of life and death to keep the world in balance.5 A common
It is quite mind-boggle to conceive that the ancient religions existed in isolation from each other, many continents away, yet many similar themes run throughout their worldviews. Ellwood begins by telling us that “The indigenous religious traditions had no developed writing systems, so they transmitted their way of life from one generation to the next through art, myth and dance.”1 Evans-Pritchard introduces us to the Nuer, a cattle-herding people dwelling in the Nilotic Sudan. Like most ethnic religions, their beliefs are passed down through numerous rituals.2 Depending on the significance of the rituals it may be accompanied by dance, music and story-telling. Now let’s review how these stories though thousands of miles away are so similar. “Considered the most prominent interpretation is the images that that are represented in ritual and myth are the stories of creation, the beginning and how humans came to be,”3 says Ellwood. Since there is good then there must be bad, so the idea that a moral enforcer, god or deity exits. For example the Poso of the Sulawesi
A family prays at the Zoroastrian temple in Chakchak
Island in Indonesia believe that the creator made mankind mortal because they are indignant.4 The Wahungwe Makoni of Zimbabwe believes that lesser deity Mwuetsi defied the high God Maori, resulting in the cycle of life and death to keep the world in balance.5 A common