e good spirits were more elevated. All of the good spirits came together in what was termed the shen, which eventually became the hierarchy of gods headed by T'ien, or heaven. In that instance, then, spirits more explicitly became part of the great spirit, or religious source (Baird and Bloom, 1972).
In other religions, spirit was always separated from spirits of ancestors or nature spirits. In Judaism, spirit was discussed as the holy wind, or the breath of God. The term "ruach" was used to describe this holy wind in the He
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