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==Religion== | ==Religion== | ||
===Traditional beliefs=== | ===Traditional beliefs=== | ||
The Sjowaázh traditionally believed in a "spirit-complex". The "spirit-complex" links all spirits together; spirits leave it when a person is born, and his spirit reenters the spirit-complex when he dies. This spirit-complex was held to be the source of morality. Since everyone is of the spirit-complex, morality involves both respect for the living and the dead. Hence ancestor veneration is not unusual | The Sjowaázh traditionally believed in a "spirit-complex". The "spirit-complex" links all spirits together; spirits leave it when a person is born, and his spirit reenters the spirit-complex when he dies. This spirit-complex was held to be the source of morality. Since everyone is of the spirit-complex, morality involves both respect for the living and the dead. Hence ceremonial ancestor veneration is not unusual even in modern Sjowaázh society. | ||
Sjowaázh beliefs are agnostic as to whether non-human things have souls. | Sjowaázh beliefs are agnostic as to whether non-human things have souls. | ||