Search results for "Ancestor Worship" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Miao practice a traditional form of spirit worship through which they believe ... Koreans also regard Chiyou as an ethnic ancestor. Furthermore, under the ...23 KB (3,462 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- * Safeguarding the unity of divine worship at Jerusalem. ... to the Masoretic Text, suggesting that an ancestor of the Masoretic Text was ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- had written in favor of Alexander's ancestor, Alexander the First. This ... Artemis; Corinth was a center for the worship of Aphrodite; Delphi and ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- (anaa- "enemy," sází "ancestor").] The term was first ... Immense complexes known as "Great Houses" embodied worship ...40 KB (6,073 words) - 19:47, 26 July 2023
- great-grandfather Haēcataspa was the ancestor of the whole family Spitāma ... Yasna, which can be translated to "worship of wisdom." Zoroastrians ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- portions of the Palace were converted for Shamanist worship by the new Manchu rulers. Beginning with the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor, the Empress moved ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- Abraham, who is not only the biological ancestor of the Jews, but also the ... (Gal. 5, 1 Cor. 8, Col. 2:6-23), proper worship and church discipline (1 ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- “anti” were the focus of I-Kiribati worship before Protestant missionaries ... (identified by having a common ancestor). Inheritance of property ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
- non-Christian religion, which involves ancestor worship and spiritual intercession; the Mbira Dza Vadzimu, which means "Voice of the Ancestors ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- of India was thought to have been the ancestor of European Classical cultures ... Vedic peoples represented a form of nature worship, an idea clearly influenced ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- may have evolved from a common lizard ancestor that was venomous, from ... The axial skeleton of the snakes' common ancestor had, like most ...54 KB (8,016 words) - 05:10, 13 October 2022
- as a religious offering is usually limited to ancestor veneration and worship of village deities. Vegetarian deities, such as the Buddha, are not ...29 KB (4,637 words) - 15:23, 10 December 2023
- was characterized by, for example, the worship of gods in groups of three ... Glas who is credited as the eponymous ancestor of the Gaels and creator ...52 KB (7,483 words) - 20:49, 17 April 2023
- is a pantheistic system, centering on the worship of "Heaven" as ... Ancestor worship was a major religious practice shared among all Chinese ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- to the biblical patriarch Tirash, the ancestor of the Thracians and Etruscans. ... Etruscan religious ritual and worship also influenced Rome's ...35 KB (5,526 words) - 04:38, 22 March 2024
- ceremonial rites of Confucianism and ancestor worship were primarily social ... lived, worked and held property jointly; worship often included speaking ...58 KB (8,323 words) - 21:09, 10 December 2023
- of the Puru lineage, was the eponymous ancestor of the Kurus and the founder ... * Fergusson, James. The Tree and Serpent Worship: Illustrations of ...50 KB (7,467 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- dead are venerated; this is commonly called ancestor worship. Funeral rites can be traced back to the most primitive of societies. In the Shanidar ...37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
- Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, whose own ancestor, Vuk Karadñic (1787-1884 ... vestiges of a group, such as places of worship, cemeteries, and cultural ...36 KB (5,522 words) - 14:58, 9 February 2022
- practice other Han Chinese customs, like ancestor worship at graves. The Uyghurs of Hunan do not speak the Uyghur language, instead, they speak Chinese ...35 KB (5,059 words) - 20:30, 23 March 2024
