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1. Some forms of religion are called primal because they tend to come before the religious traditions. 2. During the period of the Dreaming, the Ancestors gave shape to the landscape and created the various forms of life, including the first human beings. They also organized humans into tribes, specified the territory each tribe would occupy, and determined each tribe’s language, social rules, customs. 3. The spiritual essence of the Ancestors remains in the various symbols they left behind, and the sites that the symbols are found are thought to be charged with sacred power. 4. The term totem is a natural entity, such as an animal or a feature of the landscape, that symbolizes an individual or group and that has special significance for the religious life of that individual or group. A taboo, is a system of social ordering that dictates that specific objects and activities owing to their sacred nature, are set aside for specific groups and are strictly forbidden to other.
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