### tradition:

Jewish tradition
* believes in sexuality as a positive force.
* considers the sexual act to be extremely holy.
* encourages equality of humankind
  - simplicity in burial
* is mixed when it comes to adoption.
* links abortion to the sexually licentious, who employ it to hide their sins.
* mandates burying the dead as soon as possible.
* militates against abuse of natural resources and the environment.
* places a great value on the health and well being of the mind.
* prohibits abuse of natural resources and the environment.
* recognizes the democracy of death
  - egalitarian nature of death
* speaks often of lost writings and books.
* teaches that man was created in Gods image
  - our prayers and our actions can change the entire world
  - redemption continuous possibility
  - the Sabbath glimpse of the world to come

Mystical tradition
* Many mystical traditions say that there are always three forces at work in any worldly phenomenon.
* teach that suffering can be understood and transcended.

### tradition:

Oral tradition
* are very common among the indigenous tribes still existent in the Philippines.
* continues to be an important part of most cultures.
* have a different way of being alive than written histories.
* includes patronymics, song, story and preservation of family relationships.
* is capable of transmitting something without inscripturation
  - responsible for the origin of metaphors in Reverse Speech
* means that the information, the stories, are told rather than written down.
* preserves history, language and culture for American Indian communities.
* reliable source of information about traditional knowledge.
* speak of aspirations, joys, anguish, dilemmas, dissatisfaction and dissent.
* transfers a subtle essence, like fire, from one person to another.

### tradition:

Religious tradition
* All religious traditions acknowledge that the world is imperfect
  - call for workers to be treated with justice and dignity
  - develop a literature of imaginative responses to their sacred canon
  - have the capacity to awaken and inspire the human spirit
  - teach about ultimate values and their relationship to our worldly lives
* Many religious traditions establish the everyday character of moral and ethical decisions
  - reflect the cultural and scientific understandings of an earlier time
  - speak of spirituality, or experience of the divine
* Most religious traditions have prayers of doubt and complaint.
* Some religious traditions allow for the possibility of the forgiveness of sin
  - have a requirement around the one year anniversary of the death
  - know the ideal of a voluntary renunciation of the full use of sexuality
* are maintained through the Jamaican educational system
  - of greatest significance in the eyes of the people
* become consumer commodities.
* recommend opening the heart to the one divine Reality that is everywhere.

Spiritual tradition
* All spiritual traditions distill the essence of simplicity.
* Some spiritual traditions speak about the death of the ego as a dimension of spiritual maturation.
* speak of embodying the divinity within.

Western tradition
* is monotheistic, that is, it believes in one god and inscripted prophets.
* organizes major and minor scales around a central key.
* precludes baseball caps, designer jeans and jogging shoes.

### traditional american dance:

Contra dance
* is an American form of folk dancing done to jigs, reels, marches, and hornpipes.
* traditional American dance.
* type of folk dance for all ages and a social dance in the most literal sense.

### tragedies:

House fire
* Many house fires are the result of food left burning on the stove.
* Most house fires are determined to be accidental and preventable
  - occur at night while people are sleeping
* are a leading cause of death among children.
* cause the most burn injury deaths in all ages in the United States.
* develop and spread rapidly.
* is tragedies.