immortality (protecting against death)
but people can prject themselves into the invisible
people were children living with god as parent
struggling, wrestling, desperation, sorrow
but they lost the gifts, and so lost paradise
sometimes other spiritual beings are closely associated with god
coheres with belief in magical power of cosmos
he who is of himself, the self-existent one
personifications of major natural phenomena and objects
burial monuments (Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia)
praise, gratitude, and thanksgiving of god
universe is created, governed, filled and sustained by God, the supreme creator
body and sense (destroyed after death)
(mountains, lakes, earthquakes, ect.)
purity of heart, humility, trust, and faith
(healing, divination, exocism, protecting people)
god gave them one or more of three great gifts
prayers, invocations, rituals, offerings, sacrifices
(birth, name giving, initiation around puberty, marriage, death)
representaions or manifestations of god
embedded in values, customs, traditional laws, taboos