In lowland South America, as well as the Andes, animism and shamanism are common, as noted among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia.

After passing the Pongo de Huaracayo ( or Guaracayo ), the cerros, or hills, gradually disappear, and for a distance of about the river is full of islands, and there is nothing visible from its low banks but an immense forest-covered plain known as the selva baja (" low jungle ") or Peruvian Amazonia, home to indigenous peoples such as the Urarina of the Chambira Basin, the Candoshi, and the Cocama-Cocamilla peoples.

Although ritual is often used in context with worship performed in a church, the actual relationship between any religion's doctrine and its ritual ( s ) can vary considerably from organized religion to non-institutionalized spirituality, such as ayahuasca shamanism as practiced by the Urarina of the upper Amazon.

* Dean, Bartholomew 2009 Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia, Gainesville: University Press of Florida ISBN 978-0-8130-3378-5,.

Users of ayahuasca in non-traditional contexts often align themselves with the philosophies and cosmologies associated with ayahuasca shamanism, as practiced among indigenous peoples like the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia.

* Bartholomew, Dean Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009.

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As indigenous territories continue to be destroyed by deforestation and ecocide, such as in the Peruvian Amazon indigenous peoples ' rainforest communities continue to disappear, while others, like the Urarina continue to struggle to fight for their cultural survival and the fate of their forested territories.

In the Peruvian Amazon, debt peonage is an important aspect of contemporary Urarina society.

Iterations of ethnographic representations in the classic, modernist camp include Bartholomew Dean's recent ( 2009 ) contribution, Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia.

A Urarina people | Urarina shaman, 1988.

It remains an important part of social life, as among the Urarina of the Peruvian Amazon.

In native Amazonia, this residence pattern is often associated with the customary practice of brideservice, as seen among the Urarina of northeastern Peru.

This is particularly evident among indigenous peoples and their musical genres, such as the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia who face many challenges in the face of globalization and the forces propelling cultural appropriation.

While many versions of myths portray Ægir as a giant, it is curious that many do not.

Some myths portray them with a row of dorsal spines.

The myths surrounding Rasputin portray him as showing indications of supernatural powers throughout his childhood.

These myths generally portray Osiris as a wise lord, king, and bringer of civilization, happily married to his sister, Isis.

The nationalist myths portray the nation like sleeping and waiting to be awakened, but scholarly discourse avoid such image because national identity either exists or not and can not be asleep and awakened.

A vast collection of myths defines the relationships between man, nature, plants and animals.

The literary genre of myths of transformations of men and women, heroes and nymphs, into stars ( see Catasterismi ), plants and animals, or springs, rocks and mountains, were widespread and popular in the classical world.

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According to some versions of the myths about Shennong, he eventually died as a result of his researches into the properties of plants by experimenting upon his own body, after, in one of his tests, he ate the yellow flower of a weed that caused his intestines to rupture before he had time to swallow his antidotal tea: having thus given his life for humanity, he has since received special honor though his worship as the Medicine King.

: Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic being who wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path-birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterholes-and so singing the world into existence.

This Temputn tells myths of origin of universe, world and sky, human and animal creation, plants, water, fire, rain, death, ancestor origin, and some social taboos ( Michael Hopes & Karaakng 1997: 1-19 ).

Some thinkers believe that myths resulted from the personification of inanimate objects and forces.

Using the few scraps of reliable information within the various myths, Trevize and Pelorat discover a planet called Gaia, which is inhabited solely by Mentalics, to such an extent that every organism and inanimate object on the planet shares a common mind.

Nor did the Aegean objects which were lying obscurely in museums in 1870, or thereabouts, provide a sufficient test of the real basis underlying the Hellenic myths of the Argolid, the Troad and Crete, to cause these to be taken seriously.

For example, according to the theory of mythopoeic thought, the ancients tended to view things as persons, not as mere objects ; thus, they described natural events as acts of personal gods, thus giving rise to myths.

It has two types: torimono ma, unmasked dances that include held objects, and shinno ( sacred No ), dramatic masked dances based on myths.

Nor did the Aegean objects which were lying obscurely in museums in 1870, or thereabouts, provide a sufficient test of the real basis underlying the Hellenic myths of the Argolid, the Troad and Crete, to cause these to he taken seriously.

The literary role of artificial life has evolved over time: early myths present animated objects as instruments of divine will, later stories treat their attempted creation as a blasphemy with inevitable consequences, and modern tales range from apocalyptic warnings against blind technological progress to explorations of the ethical questions raised by the possibility of sentient machines.

Lang wanted to explain the relationship through nature myths according to which animals and natural objects were considered as the relatives, patrons, or ancestors of the respective social units.

Some traditional vampire myths depict vampires as having a similar fixation with counting small objects, providing a means of distracting them by tossing a handful of seeds or salt on the ground.

As Quine states in Two Dogmas, " The myth of physical objects is epistemologically superior to most in that it has proved more efficacious than other myths as a device for working a manageable structure into the flux of

This includes abstract objects such as scientific theories, stories, myths, tools, social institutions, and works of art.

These myths about OMC women being that they are subservient working class woman, used as objects for club sexual rituals, are hard bitten, unattractive, and politically conservative, and ' money makers ' for the biker men and clubs, i. e. prostitutes, topless barmaids or strippers who are forced to hand over their money to the club.

This includes looking for living examples of animals that are considered extinct, such as dinosaurs ; animals whose existence lacks physical evidence but which appear in myths, legends, or are reported, such as Bigfoot and Chupacabra ; and wild animals dramatically outside their normal geographic ranges, such as phantom cats or " ABCs " ( an initialism commonly used by cryptozoologists that stands for Alien Big Cats ).

Ngurunderi pursued the fish ( who, like many totem animals in Aboriginal myths, is often portrayed as a man ) on rafts ( or lala ) made from red gums and continually launched spears at his target.

The anachronism of Noah's distinguishing between " clean " animals ( seven of each ) and " unclean " animals ( two of each ) when loading the animals onto the ark, which was only established under the later Law of Moses, supports the Documentary Hypothesis which posits that the authors of the Bible retroactively applied laws to older myths to tie them into a unified religion Judaism.

Frequent encounters with dogs and other domestic animals, and the release of the odor when a skunk is run over, have led to many myths about the removal of the skunk odor.

In many myths, humans can speak with animals ; and, after their initiations, many shamans claim to be able to communicate with animals.

Some animals that figure in these origin myths include the Thunderbird, his brother Kolus, the seagull, orca, grizzly bear or chief ghost.

Nevertheless there are a number of myths that have demonized to some animals like the scorpion vinagrillo or nana, the salamanquesca a beautiful blue-tailed lizard, the Matip night and many others, however this is not more than myths san.

There are styles that mimic movements from animals and others that gather inspiration from various Chinese philosophies, myths and legends.

Philip Griebel made terracotta animals as decorations, and produced gnomes based on local myths as a way for people to enjoy the stories of the gnomes ' willingness to help in the garden at night.

These designs represent religious themes, humans, animals, and scenes of ceremonies and myths reflecting their perception of the world.

In several American Indian creation myths, it is the muskrat which dives to the bottom of the primordial sea to bring up the mud from which the earth is created, after other animals had failed in the task.

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Bats, being nocturnal animals, are associated with various dangers and fears of darkness, with the centuries of prejudices and accompanying myths of Dracula, Halloween, etc.

Archetypal psychology likens itself to a polytheistic mythology in that it attempts to recognize the myriad fantasies and myths — gods, goddesses, demigods, mortals and animals — that shape and are shaped by our psychological lives.