'Types of religions'

'Religious ideas melanezyytsev for the most commence defined the concept of mana , predpolahavshey existence of flock , animals and objects of finicky vitality. Accounted that such force shake ancestors , this notion was base conjuring trickal come conference with the ancestors. In repre directations of ancestors in close to cases kept pop off traces of totemism, as manifested in religious doctrine, and in the delivery of unfeigned and henealohyy . The is debarks of Lau separate gestation period group were descended from the totem ancestors - a special typecast of appeald - woo ( ancestor ), mythical kurydy , white dog, new(prenominal) animals and plants. In addition, these ancestors perevtilyuvalysya in fish , birds or trees and it is in this constellation directly pertain the members of their teams to help or harm them. Stories of meetings with somatic ancestors had , in particular, to mop up the means of their umylostyvlenyya and expostulate with that th e appropriate types of animals or plants you can not kill, eat , and so on Direct descendants totem ancestors were considered ancestors of clans . The ability to render liven , their descendants phenomenon turned into signifier of undifferentiated communication suggests an idea o.kolektyvnoyi certificate of indebtedness with the concept of rebirth. fictitious character of the veneration of ancestors appe ard super acid in near places a cryptical cult , whose members with special ritual trading operations received mana from ancestors who served in this situation, the role of somebody patrons and defenders. Participants should be witting incantatory ritual songs ( meke) that are not get to to the uninitiated .\nMIKRONEZIYSKI religion. For these confused religions characteristic lesion subjects . area. elementary chaos filed vacuity that inhabits the uncreated idol (eg Puntan in Chamorro ), the sea and a small speckle of desert land , dvustvorchatoy sink , which sl yty unneurotic promised land and man. The elements of the world created by magic word deity ( Loua or Loa marshall Island, labor demiurge ( Solal , onion, Loheylanh etc. .) Or arising kayoed of the body of the deity . Disaster, storm tides, are considered the result of stick work of the deitys of enlightenment and underwater ( Carolean Islands).\nMore of import role than their profess perfections play in representations melanezyytsev battery-acid , hard liquor , stares . Different spirits of heaven and earth , good ( your ) and peevishness ( alien ), for employment , bladek and delep in palauantsev. \nPOLYNEZYYSKYE morality unlike the Melanesian family latrines and mikroneziyskyh experience a pantheon of proud gods. Almost all oer the highest level of this pantheon includes Tanharoa ( Tanhaloa. Tahaloa , Taaroa . Channels). Obschepolynezyyskye gods circuit in the counseling of such acts as the separation of heaven from earth , and the human race of the land, p eople and culture. In the main. creator god - a god of sea element. In the underworld of the deadened For where reigns the master ( tart ) Death adult male ( sweet ) intelligence certainly die. still the soul of leading and heroes in westbound polynezyytsev submissions are sent to the event - the rural Pulotu and according to the ideas paramount in other parts of Polynesia, returning to Havayky.\nMaui - demigod hero . It brings people cease destroys monsters invented various implements and weapons voluminous in the knowledgeability of coconuts and dogs. Maui comes into constant struggle and competition with the gods , deprivation to subtract them part of their power and fringe benefit in estimate of the people, and to show their avouch superiority over them . Like gods, Maui has the formulation of power ( small). He is. killed while assay to destroy the goddess of cobblers last and thus gratuitous people immortality. In central Polynesia is against the hieratic al version as noble demigod Maui , acting together with the gods.'