Search results for "Ancestor Worship" - New World Encyclopedia
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- cults, including those centered on worship of the ancestors and of ... elements of Hinduism, Buddhism and indigenous ancestor cults. ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- |observances = Ancestor worship, offering food (to monks as well ... [[Image:Ancestor worship003.JPG|thumb|250px|Food is offered to the ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- once its state religion. It involves the worship of kami, which can be translated ... as general cultural beliefs (such as ancestor worship, which is still very ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- many Koreans boast of having a yangban ancestor. Yangban ancestry can be ... cappings, weddings, funerals, and ancestor worship. Depending on social ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- [[Liao Dynasty|Liao]] funerary mask, an ancestor of the Kara-Khitans, 10 ... Khitan religion, which included fire worship and tribal customs, such ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- churches, and other places built for worship. They are also found in ... They are used as places of prayer and worship and encounter with the deity. ...49 KB (7,532 words) - 23:19, 9 May 2024
- translated "Lord on High." Ancestor worship was also present, as ... from the faith placed in Shang Di. Ancestor worship became commonplace and ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Christians could not participate in ancestor worship. This was in direct ... On the other hand, the Christian prohibition of ancestor worship put ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- genus, meaning descended from a common ancestor. The original meaning of ... stranger was expected to refrain from the worship of idols (Lev. 20:2, Ezek ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles and worship God as their true king. ... bringing even the Gentiles to the proper worship of God at Jerusalem. ...16 KB (2,596 words) - 13:06, 13 February 2024
- Queen Athaliah for the toleration of Baal worship. Joash, too, had later been ... As one of the Davidic kings, Uzziah is thought to be the ancestor ...10 KB (1,704 words) - 22:57, 13 November 2022
- when the Magyar religion was a "blend of ancestor worship and paganism."Stephen Sisa, The Spirit of Hungary: A Panorama of Hungarian History ...14 KB (1,600 words) - 16:21, 13 January 2024
- Devahuti in the philosophy of yoga and worship of Lord Vishnu, enabling ... King Sagara (Ocean) of Ayodhya, an ancestor of Rama, had performed the ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- #039;s descent from one paternal ancestor who in Hebrew tradition ... * No idolatry (foreign or strange worship) * To pray to YHWH ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- system of Confucianism and ancestor worship), Kim and his family led lives of deprivation and hardship. Although there were repeated efforts ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 17:52, 27 July 2023
- in several distinctive forms of worship, and they are not perceived ... Ancestor worship is common in Africa and is an important part of religious ...41 KB (6,461 words) - 06:06, 16 June 2023
- with a saint, or importance as a center of worship. The Latin word ... larger and more handsome edifices for worship than the furtive meeting ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 03:32, 1 January 2022
- the twin sons Esau and Jacob and thus the ancestor of both the Edomites and ... them to do good deeds and establish godly worship and the giving of alms. ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- speak of Abotani, reputedly the original ancestor of the Apatani and the other tribes in central Arunachal Pradesh. Those tribes encompass the ...11 KB (1,672 words) - 05:57, 11 August 2023
- #039;s dispersal, relating back to their ancestor's violent act in regard ... the native proto-Israelite traditions of worship at local shrines and high ...21 KB (3,292 words) - 22:17, 25 October 2022
- 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
- Buddhist. Vietnamese widely practice ancestor worship and Confucianism. In ... native animism with with strong emphasis on Ancestor Worship. ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- evolved from a primitive form of animism or ancestor worship to progressively higher levels of relationship with the divine. Later scholars became more ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- Djenné (also Dienné or Jenne) is a historically and commercially important small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south-central Mali. It is ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- Moai, or mo‘ai, are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and ...33 KB (5,262 words) - 12:54, 10 March 2023
- His alleged paternal ancestor Jasper Tudor was a younger brother of ... Prayer was replaced with a Directory of Worship, and bishops were abolished ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- Japan, and generally characterized by ancestor worship and respect for relationships ... related to the Chinese sanxian, and ancestor of the Japanese shamisen ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- to Ningizzida. Ningizzida was the ancestor of Gilgamesh, who according ... * Deane, John Bathurst. The Worship of the Serpent. Mokelumne Hill ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- who were said to be the offspring of the ancestor of Japan, Amaterasu. Before ... occupation authorities for permission to worship the Sun Goddess. Some have ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- tend to revolve around animism and ancestor worship. A common thread in traditional belief systems was the division of the spiritual world into ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- animism, vitalism, spirit and ancestor worship, witchcraft, and sorcery ... a human motif, including statues of ancestor figures or spirits that ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
