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The religious practice of the Neolithic (7000-3000 B.C. E.) period traces religion to the life of the farmer and tiller of the land. The sun, the sky, and the earth were the fundamental realities for the farmer.

Earth and sky represent the primal pair of female and male – Mother Earth and Sky God. In these belief systems the spirit of the sky is ________________. (page 155; PowerPoints Chapter 8)

Select one:

a. male while the spirit of the earth is female

b. maternal while the spirit of the earth is paternal

c. unknown to scholars because there is no written history

d. dead while the spirit of the earth is alive

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The school of ethnology associated with Wilhelm Schmidt claimed there was an almost universal belief in a ________who dwells in the sky and who fertilizes the earth with his life-giving rain. (page 155; PowerPoints Chapter 8)

Select one:

a. creator god

b. priest of animal breeding

c. indifference to African tribes

d. forest dwelling wood nymph

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Zeus is head of the Greek pantheon who sends the rains, lightning, and thunderbolts. He is ruler and father who was believed to command mortals and immortals. The word pantheon means ____________________. (page 157 and page 406; PowerPoints Chapter 8)

Select one:

a. marriages and liasons

b. collective gods of a society

c. Homer's Iliad

d. the Parthenon in Greece

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The discovery of prehistoric female figurines with exaggerated breasts, thighs, and abdomen is evidence for the primeval worship of female earth deities.

Veneration of the Great Mother involved _______________________. (page 157; PowerPoints Chapter 8)

Select one:

a. celebrating women’s fertility

b. a rock shelter in Dordogne, France

c. the strongest of all the immortals

d. being absorbed and replaced

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The Neolithic discovery of agriculture brought with it a new relationship between ___________________, centering on the mysteries of birth, life, death, and rebirth. ( page 158; PowerPoints Chapter 8)

Select one:

a. the Titans and the gods

b. women and the manhood of Cypriote

c. the human community and vegetation

d. Venus and Laussel

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6. answer- a- sky is male while the spirit of earth is female

7. answer- a- creator God

8. answer- b- collective gods of a society

9. answer- a- celebrating women's fertility

10. answer- a - the titans and the gods