RE Yr 8 End Of Years Revision

• Cosmology


  A system that tries to make sense of the way the physical world interacts with the spiritual world
• Belief

  An acceptance that something exists or is true (with or without proof)
• Practice

  How a community puts their beliefs into action
• Polytheistic

  A belief in many gods
• Mythology

  A collection of stories that belong to a particular culture
• Artefact


  An object made by human beings with cultural or historical interest
• Magic


  Having or apparently having supernatural powers
• Spirit


  A non-physical being
• Porquoi


  A story of how things came to be
• Oracle


  A priestess who advices by channeling the god
• Sangoma


  Healers that use elements of nature, water, air or plants in their healing
• Healing is important in Africa because they believe illness encompasses people from god, their ancestors and the universe
• Prophet


  A person who is regarded as an inspirational teacher or is proclaimed of the will of god
• One of the world's oldest religion (Zoroastrianism) is somewhere between 2600 and 4600 years old
• Zoroaster


  The prophet who Zoroastrianism stems from
• Zoroastrianism is one of the first monotheistic faiths
• Ahura Mazda


  The 'Lord of Wisdom' worshipped in Zoroastrianism
• Zoroastrianism


  • Began in Ancient Iran
  • Gave birth to the idea of the devil
  • Priests wear white robes
  • Belief in a single Supreme being
• Zoroastrians believe that there is a battle between good and evil in the world
• The focus in a Zoroastrian's life is to defeat evil
• Fire (Zoroastrian)


  The Supreme symbol of purity and the light of god
• Zoroastrianism has Eternal Flames
• Zoroastrianism gives a lot of respect to fire
• Maintaining a sacred flame

  1. Lit

  2. Fed 5 times a day to ensure it does not burn out
• When they begin a new fire there is a large celebration
• Tower of Silence


  • Three concentric circles: one for men, women and children
  • Bodies stay there, naked, before being consumed by vultures
  • Bones are then dried and kept in the well with the others
• Zoroastrian practices
• Maat


  The natural order, as designed and maintained by the gods
• Duat


  The underworld, where all souls go after this life
• Thoth


  The Scribe for other gods, believed to have invented hieroglyphs
• Osiris


  The god of the underworld and the afterlife, depicted with a pharaoh's beard and mummy bandages
• Isis


  An important goddess with many roles, helped the dead enter the afterlife
• Anubis


  Linked to mummification and the afterlife, performed the weighing of the heart ceremony to decide if a person could pass into the afterlife
• Mummification


  1. Preserving the body by taking out the organs, sucking out the fluids, and wrapping it up

  2. The mummification process was important because if you didn't preserve it there would be no life to come

  3. If you couldn't afford mummification, you would freeze the body
• Fayum portraits


  • Used by poor people to preserve themselves in the next life
• Mummify

  To preserve a body by embalming it and wrapping it in a cloth
• Ying and yang


  The complimentary forces that encompasses the entire universe
• Daoism


  Chinese religion and philosophy
• Qi


  Energy of the universe
• Monastic Lice


  A decision to live apart from the world to practice your faith more deeply