Comparative Religion Analysis

What is religion? Religion is belief in something that exists beyond our outside of our understanding—whether spirits, gods or simply a particular order to the world, each of these components have been present at every stage in the development of human society. Believing in something has become a major factor in much of how everyone has developed. Many have devoted their lives to study religion all over the world and it can be whether to understand another religion’s set of beliefs, or to explain why humans seems to drawn to be apart of a religion. In this comparative religion paper, we’ll be looking at three world religions and comparing elements of all. First of all, the first religion that really stuck out was

Until about fifty years ago, scholars were reasonably certain about who the Celts were and what could be agreed about their religion(Patridge, 2005). The Celts were a family of peoples speaking similar languages who occupied Europe north of the Alps and south of the River Elbe, with extensions into Mediterranean lands(Patridge, 2005). In addition to that, the Celts were warlike, with a ruling military aristocracy, creative, producing an amazing art characterized by fluid lines and abstract figures(Patridge, 2005). Most importantly, they were intensely spiritual and they believed in a combination of gods and goddesses. The greatest god of them all in their religion was Lugh, who is identified with the sun, intelligence, skills and art. Traces of his worship have been found from Ireland to present day eastern Germany(Patridge, 2005). To continue, the religion of the Celts was dominated by a highly trained and learned priesthood, the Druids. They taught that when humans die, their souls pass into new bodies and are reborn into this world. Aside from that, they also conducted large human sacrifices by a range of cruel means, such as the burning alive of victims in big wicker images(Patridge, 2005). For the Celts, the most important festivals were the ones that opened the seasons, so at the beginning of November, February, May and August. For them, they preferred not to build temples, instead

First and foremost, the Aztecs migrated into the Valley of Mexico in the late twelfth century and founded the capital city of Tenochititlan in about 1730 ce. The Aztecs believed that two primal beings originated all things and those included the gods: Ometecuhtli and Omeciuatl and they both lived at the summit of the world, in the thirteenth heaven(Patridge, 2005). Additionally, it is believed that these two produced all the gods and all of human mankind. But by the end of the Spanish Conquest, the two beings had been “pushed back” by a group of younger and more active gods. The Aztecs believed that the gods in turn created the Earth, during which the most important act was the birth of the sun at the capital city, through the self sacrifice of a little leprous god(Patridge, 2005). Furthermore, the remaining gods then followed his example of sacrifice to provide the blood needed to set the sun moving across the sky. In their religion, in order for the sun to be on its course, it had to be fed daily with human blood. They regarded their sacrifice as a sacred duty towards the sun, without that life of the world would stop. As a result, consistent sacrifices had to be done and it was thought that more than 20,000 were slain each