Sacred Texts In Indigenous Religions

Issues regarding sacred texts in indigenous religions exists because there are many obstacles scholars have to overcome when studying them. Scholars have primarily focused more on religions that had produced written texts than on those that expressed themselves through orally transmitted stories, histories, and rituals. Religions with written text and scriptures are sometimes referred to complex. They are complex however, some oral religions are considered simple. That is not the case, most are complex (36).Another problem is any religion grounded in a written text faces the problem of how to reproduce the sacred text without somehow falsifying its truth. For instance, even modern scribes and others who labored to repair damaged hand-copied

In some parts of Africa, babies do not become members of the community until they receive their names in a special public ceremony that is accompanied by song, dance, and a meal. In some Native American indigenous religions, after a women would give birth, the infant was usually plunged into the river. They repeated that 2 to 3 years daily after the birth. An example of a belief is the “four noble truths” in the indigenous religions Buddhism. The belief is that there is a truth of suffering, a truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that frees us from

For example, in ancient african religions, masks are usually worn by men and rarely y women. They wore them during ritual ceremonies related to life events such as death. They can represent many things such as spirits of animals, people or ideas, ancestors, whether male or female, power and history of the religion, and provide protection from spirits. When they represent spirits, they are considered sacred for the religion. For the people of Burkina Faso, once boys and girls reach puberty, they are “kidnapped” and taken away from the community. Then, they are taught the meaning and the importance of the