Search results for "Ancestor Worship" - New World Encyclopedia
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- earlier causewayed enclosure sites. Ancestor worship could have been one ... the site as a religious temple or place of worship. This dialog takes place ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:14, 23 August 2023
- him. Esau was the brother of Jacob, the ancestor of the Israelite nation ... The nature of Edomite religion is uncertain. Yahweh-worship, apparently ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- the Indians and the Chinese. When used for worship in Chinese folk religion ... the statues or plaques of a deity or an ancestor. Individual sticks of incense ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- the Shinto religion, based around the worship of natural and ancestral ... lineages. His son Fusasaki became the ancestor of the regent line of the ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- bài tiān gōng, literally "heaven worship") at which priests ... *Goodrich, Anne S. Peking Paper Gods: A Look at Home Worship. Monumenta ...18 KB (2,861 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- scholars in the court of Kanauj. His ancestor Atrigupta, who was born ... son, she devoted herself entirely to the worship of Lord Shiva and the service ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- A patriline is a line of descent from a male ancestor to a descendant ... A kinsman with whom one has a common ancestor by descent in an unbroken ...28 KB (4,138 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- elements of shamanism, animism, totemism, and ancestor worship. Tengriism replaced an earlier polytheistic Turkic religion; it was also the religion of ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- associated with Sweden and was seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house. ... details on the god (and the circumstances of his worship): ...27 KB (4,366 words) - 02:39, 1 December 2023
- and the Bön religion. Though Chöd is not ancestor worship per se it is a spiritual practice and evocation that involves former relatives, preceptors ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- Ancestor worship or veneration has been widely practiced by the Chinese throughout history from the Taoist perspective in which the deceased ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 17:32, 11 October 2020
- relics rather than active places of worship. Several schools for religious ... reject these rituals as a form of ancestor worship, which they consider ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- * Smith, Robert J. Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan. Stanford University Press, 1974. ISBN 0804708738 * Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse, and Mariko ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- and some also tended to have elements of ancestor worship though generalizations are invidious given the extreme heterogeneity of Melanesian societies. ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- cultures. In Chinese culture, ancestor worship and divination practices date back to time immemorial. The Chinese philosopher, Mo Tzu (470-391 ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- of Latin and Greek in Europe. It is an ancestor of the modern Indo-Aryan ... the destruction of the world, the worship of the gods, the attainment ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- impact twenty-first century Korea through ancestor worship, respect for elders, and concepts of filial piety, and the willingness to embrace social reform. ...16 KB (2,547 words) - 21:41, 6 October 2022
- life, patterns of thought, preaching and worship.They were determined to ... ceremonial rites of Confucianism and ancestor worship were primarily social ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- in his organism, and it came from some ancestor … Is any blame attached ... to any religious establishment or mode of worship. So far as we know, there ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- his idols, calling on his community to worship God instead. They then cast ... night and day, they could not be worthy of worship. He concluded that there ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
