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- The belief that everything in nature is alive
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The projection of human attributes
onto nonhuman things |
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Various ceremonies and rituals
that are designed to influence spirits |
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| The religion based on a belief in the Olympian gods as they were described in the Homeric poems. It was favored by the privileged classes, whereas peasants, laborers, and slaves tended to favore the more mystical Dionysiac-Orphic religion |
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| Dionysiac-Orphic Religion |
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| Religion whose majore belief was that the soul becomes a prisoner of the body because of some transgression committed by the soul. The soul continues on a circle of transmigrations until it has been purged of sin, at which time it can escape its earthly existence and returen to its pure, divine existence among the gods. |
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