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The larger order of creation that the shaman restores or renews by entering the spirit world.
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cosmic order
The larger order of creation that the shaman restores or renews by entering the spirit world.
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Zoroastrianism is presented as the first truly grand, complete, and unified religion because it offers a creator God, cosmic order, evil corruption, and a coherent structure.
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Jiang frames Orestes as trapped between two moral obligations: avenging his father and violating the cosmic order by killing his mother.
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In this animist-shamanic model, the soul is permanent, the spirit world is more real than the visible world, and human action must maintain cosmic harmony.
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"...of creation. He's the god of light. He's the god of order. And he creates a perfect world. Perfection. And within this world we..."
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"So he kills his daughter, Iphigenia. The wind is released from the skies, and they set sail to Troy, okay? And we know what..."
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"...go. And Orestes says to them, I killed my mother in order to avenge my father. That was the right and just thing to..."
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"We are responsible for maintaining order and structure in the universe. One thing that you cannot do is kill your parents, especially your mother...."
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"...enters the depths of a nuclear reactor to renew the entire cosmic order, okay? So if, for example, plants are dying outside, what does..."
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"Why are bad things happening? Bad things are happening because the spirits are unhappy, right? Does that make sense? So therefore, you must go..."
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"...a spirit world. And the last thing is that there's an order to the universe. We have a part to play. So, for example,..."
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A source-grounded reading of Cyrus as the foreign messiah: exile hardens Israelite memory, Persian mercy becomes a strategy of rule, Zoroastrianism turns administration into cosmic truth, and Ezra's purity project prepares the religious machinery...
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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