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The shamans' clothing, posture, symmetry, and status markers are treated as evidence of an organized ritual order.
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Religious Practice
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Jiang proposes that people who were physically different may have been seen as spiritually special, possibly suited to shamanic roles because they perceived the world differently and could devote time to religious practice.
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"...make sense, guys? All right. So, this is their shamans in religious practice. Okay? What can we say about this picture? What stands out..."
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"Well, there aren't that many of them. There's three of them. But what do you notice about the way they look and their bodies..."
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"See what I mean? Okay, but what else can you do besides food? Why would they think he was a special person? What could..."
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"...you're special, but because you can invest time into meditation, into religious practice, that enables you to communicate with the spirit world. Okay? Does..."
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"and as Professor Dugan mentions, this was against the traditional religious practices of other traditions where the emphasis is on harmony, on balance, on..."
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"...as possible in order to maintain their society, okay? So their religious practices must be very different. So whereas the peasants can pray to..."
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"...decades and what I want to show you now is the religious practice and belief system of the Mayans which then influenced the Aztecs..."
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"...the Jews and the Christians. In fact, a lot of their religious practice is similar to the Christians and Jews. When Muhammad and the..."
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"...of fire. Okay? Fire rituals. Fires are used heavily in the religious practice. Okay?"
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"...and they all had their own mythologies. They had their own religious practices."
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"...a continuation of this sort of religious devotion and worship and religious practice. Okay? All right. Okay. Any questions before I move on? Okay...."
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"...right, let's move on. All right, so this is about their religious practice, okay? So, they have a meal together. And then they sing,..."
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