Cosmology- Study of origins and a religions view on the fate of the universe and how it works.
Pantheism- belief that everything composes an all-ecnompassing, immanent God, or that the universe or nature is identical with divinity.
Polytheism-the belief in or worship of more than one god.Monotheism-the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.Transcendence- beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experienceempathy- the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.Axis mundi- center of the worldrevelation- the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relatingto human existence or the worldDivination-the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means.Taboo-a social or religious 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 figure- a god, goddess ,spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behaviorVision quest- an attempt to achieve a vision of a future guardian spirit, traditionally undertaken at puberty by boys of the Plains Indian peoples, typically through fasting or self-torture.
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