It is believed that religion started in prehistoric times. Neanderthals were found as the first to bury there dead and provided them with tool, weapons, and food. They may have believed in an after life, or spiritual world in which to supply these things. It is not know whether it was a offering to the gods, or to protect the spirit or sole in the after life. Cro-Magnon like the Neanderthals also buried there dead and provided the corpse with weapons, tools, and food. Cro-Magnon also buried there dead curled in the fetal position, in hope of a rebirth in the afterlife. It was also believed that before a hunt, a priest or magicians would predict the turn out of the hunt by drawing picture on cave walls, and insure the safety of the hunters. The Neolithic p

Africans reach puberty the must assume the responsibility of adults, are put through a ritual to bring them into adulthood. In more recent times many African religions have be broken up, shunned against, or just influenced into newer ones. Only certain tribes and regions still use there ancestors religion, which have nit been changed, or poisoned by missionaries.

This is not the only time Native Americans seek visions, many times it is before a battle, often to become in touch with a spirit during a season. Tobacco was smoked at these

rituals and is know to be very strong, also a number of tribes used peyote, a hallucinogen. Peyote was manly give during the rite of passage, and was used by the shaman. Many tribes still use the drug as a form of spiritual enlightenment, and are fighting our government to be able to use it. Native American tribes use stories to relate to their past and tell younger generations how things were created, and were spirits came from.

Native Americans are seen to be spiritually enlightened, and must at one time or another come in contact with the spirit world. This often occurs during puberty when young adults are sent into the forest for days to survive on their own, and face their fears.

Native Americans do. When a baby is born into a village it is believed to bring good lucky to the people, but in many tribes if twins are born it is a bad sign. When young

eriod also used the same basis of burial, but they did go into greater deeps. They would bury their shaman with his wives, servants, and even animals, to s

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