... similar concepts of animism and the High God. Their differences are seen in their treatment of their ancestors. The native religions from America and Africa are similar but also have several differences. Animism is a common concept among native African and American religions. It is "the belief that nature is alive with spirits that have feelings and can be communicated with". These spirits are able to ... help or harm, and an animist believes that therefore they should worship these spirits. The Native Americans believe that the Supreme Being lives in all creation ... a more direct way...

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... believed they were constructed for religious rezones. The features of basic religion are still followed to this day, and were created in the beginning of all religions. Animism is the belief that every thing as alive and has its own spirit, such as trees, water, animals, insects, and even plants. ... sun, and the moon, water, fire and the earth it self. Magic has also been used in religions, but not like today's magic where one disappears before a crowd. Magic was used in many religions to insure the safety of hunters, or to insure a kill while the hunters were in search of ... the shama...

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... slave labor, they would be, on the most part, resentful and angry. Various forms of expression, clandestine yet lucent, developed out of these feelings. One such form was music. Native African music consisted mainly of wind and string melodies punctuated by hand clapping, xylophones, and drum beats. Along those lines, an early type of slave music was the spiritual, which ... , and the ideas of good and evil. They also practiced "ancestor worship", believing that dead family members could influence aspects of their lives. A main difference between African and Christian religions, however,...

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... , played by professional musicians among the Mandinka people of Gambia, is a 21 string harp-lute. The xalam of Senegal, a plucked lute, is thought to be a close relative of the African-American banjo. The single stringed goge fiddle is played by Hausa musicians in northern Nigeria. Harps are found in a broad belt running north of the equator from Uganda to Mauritania. Lyres ... communal occasions. Even in societies with well-developed traditions of experts who are musically inclined, if anyone attempts to participate it is considered a normal part of life. In many African religions sound...

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