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simply Di (帝), is the High God (or Clan Ancestor) postulated in the earliest ... was seemingly understood as a composite ancestor of the ruling dynasty. From ...

of the soul, missionary work, and ancestor veneration. Traditional ... in the universe. Thus, Caodaiists not only worship God, the father, but also ...

|observances = Visit to their family's home town, ancestor ... of the family: Charye (차례), ancestor memorial services at home ...

and gardens. She was considered the ancestor of the Roman people by way ... Rome, Venus was also considered a divine ancestor of the entire race of Roman ...

king who reputably initiated "ancestor worship," making the king ... |   Posthumous child of Xiang. Reportedly founded "ancestor ...

analyses of kinship, the family, and ancestor worship, setting the standard ... Volta of Ghana, especially underlining the worship of ancestors and the role ...

from a great-grandson of Amaterasu. Worship of the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu ... August-Person), who later became the ancestor of the Japanese imperial ...

in the Book of Chronicles as being an ancestor of certain Kenite clans. ... the future high priest of Israel, into the worship of Yahweh, and that Moses ...

Dynasty for example, and those who neglected ancestor worship could even be subject to corporal punishment. ==Filial Piety and Confucianism== ...

Hagar. In Islamic tradition, he was the ancestor of the prophet Muhammad ... rescued by God. He went on to become the ancestor of the biblical Ishmaelites ...

of Chinese folk religion (including ancestor veneration, devotional practices ... not allowed to perform the ritual of ancestor worship. He is not allowed to ...

The Prophet Abraham is claimed by Jews as the ancestor of the Israelites ... and a spiritual, as well as a physical, ancestor of Jesus. In addition, Muslims ...

expanded totemism beyond the worship of plants and animals, claiming ... practitioners of totemism do not actually worship their chosen plant or animal ...

goddess Amaterasu Omikami is the mythical ancestor of the Imperial family. ... in search of a permanent location to worship the goddess Amaterasu-omikami ...

for example, the ancient practice of ancestor worship, still common today ... and perform rituals of ancestral worship early in the morning. Additionally ...

of Dagon, with El being a more distant ancestor; and Ashera is not always ... The worship of this deity was prevalent in Canaan from ancient times ...

In Christian tradition, Aaron was the ancestor of Zechariah and Elizabeth ... that Aaron make them an image for them to worship. Aaron complied with their ...

funerary rites, mourning rituals, and ancestor worship were often considered ... later became an act of full-fledged ancestor worship. Even where ancestor ...

a family visit to a temple for overnight worship, when he stayed up waiting ... idol-veneration, animal sacrifices, ancestor worship, pilgrimages, priestcraft ...

Men of Heaven and considered a direct ancestor of the Korean people. In ... the legend of Dangun to reflect the sun-worship and totemism common in the ...

cults, including those centered on worship of the ancestors and of ... elements of Hinduism, Buddhism and indigenous ancestor cults. ...

|observances = Ancestor worship, offering food (to monks as well ... [[Image:Ancestor worship003.JPG|thumb|250px|Food is offered to the ...

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 ...

many Koreans boast of having a yangban ancestor. Yangban ancestry can be ... cappings, weddings, funerals, and ancestor worship. Depending on social ...

[[Liao Dynasty|Liao]] funerary mask, an ancestor of the Kara-Khitans, 10 ... Khitan religion, which included fire worship and tribal customs, such ...

translated "Lord on High." Ancestor worship was also present, as ... from the faith placed in Shang Di. Ancestor worship became commonplace and ...

Christians could not participate in ancestor worship. This was in direct ... On the other hand, the Christian prohibition of ancestor worship put ...

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 ...

celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles and worship God as their true king. ... bringing even the Gentiles to the proper worship of God at Jerusalem. ...

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 ...

when the Magyar religion was a "blend of ancestor worship and paganism."Stephen Sisa, The Spirit of Hungary: A Panorama of Hungarian History ...

Devahuti in the philosophy of yoga and worship of Lord Vishnu, enabling ... King Sagara (Ocean) of Ayodhya, an ancestor of Rama, had performed the ...

#039;s descent from one paternal ancestor who in Hebrew tradition ... * No idolatry (foreign or strange worship) * To pray to YHWH ...

system of Confucianism and ancestor worship), Kim and his family led lives of deprivation and hardship. Although there were repeated efforts ...

in several distinctive forms of worship, and they are not perceived ... Ancestor worship is common in Africa and is an important part of religious ...

with a saint, or importance as a center of worship. The Latin word ... larger and more handsome edifices for worship than the furtive meeting ...

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. ...

speak of Abotani, reputedly the original ancestor of the Apatani and the other tribes in central Arunachal Pradesh. Those tribes encompass the ...

#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 ...

earlier causewayed enclosure sites. Ancestor worship could have been one ... the site as a religious temple or place of worship. This dialog takes place ...

him. Esau was the brother of Jacob, the ancestor of the Israelite nation ... The nature of Edomite religion is uncertain. Yahweh-worship, apparently ...

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 ...

the Shinto religion, based around the worship of natural and ancestral ... lineages. His son Fusasaki became the ancestor of the regent line of the ...

bài tiān gōng, literally "heaven worship") at which priests ... *Goodrich, Anne S. Peking Paper Gods: A Look at Home Worship. Monumenta ...

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 ...

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 ...

elements of shamanism, animism, totemism, and ancestor worship. Tengriism replaced an earlier polytheistic Turkic religion; it was also the religion of ...

associated with Sweden and was seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house. ... details on the god (and the circumstances of his worship): ...

and the Bön religion. Though Chöd is not ancestor worship per se it is a spiritual practice and evocation that involves former relatives, preceptors ...

Ancestor worship or veneration has been widely practiced by the Chinese throughout history from the Taoist perspective in which the deceased ...

relics rather than active places of worship. Several schools for religious ... reject these rituals as a form of ancestor worship, which they consider ...

* Smith, Robert J. Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan. Stanford University Press, 1974. ISBN 0804708738 * Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse, and Mariko ...

and some also tended to have elements of ancestor worship though generalizations are invidious given the extreme heterogeneity of Melanesian societies. ...

cultures. In Chinese culture, ancestor worship and divination practices date back to time immemorial. The Chinese philosopher, Mo Tzu (470-391 ...

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 ...

impact twenty-first century Korea through ancestor worship, respect for elders, and concepts of filial piety, and the willingness to embrace social reform. ...

life, patterns of thought, preaching and worship.They were determined to ... ceremonial rites of Confucianism and ancestor worship were primarily social ...

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 ...

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 ...

Buddhist. Vietnamese widely practice ancestor worship and Confucianism. In ... native animism with with strong emphasis on Ancestor Worship. ...

evolved from a primitive form of animism or ancestor worship to progressively higher levels of relationship with the divine. Later scholars became more ...

Djenné (also Dienné or Jenne) is a historically and commercially important small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south-central Mali. It is ...

Moai, or mo‘ai, are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and ...

His alleged paternal ancestor Jasper Tudor was a younger brother of ... Prayer was replaced with a Directory of Worship, and bishops were abolished ...

Japan, and generally characterized by ancestor worship and respect for relationships ... related to the Chinese sanxian, and ancestor of the Japanese shamisen ...

to Ningizzida. Ningizzida was the ancestor of Gilgamesh, who according ... * Deane, John Bathurst. The Worship of the Serpent. Mokelumne Hill ...

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 ...

tend to revolve around animism and ancestor worship. A common thread in traditional belief systems was the division of the spiritual world into ...

animism, vitalism, spirit and ancestor worship, witchcraft, and sorcery ... a human motif, including statues of ancestor figures or spirits that ...

Miao practice a traditional form of spirit worship through which they believe ... Koreans also regard Chiyou as an ethnic ancestor. Furthermore, under the ...

* Safeguarding the unity of divine worship at Jerusalem. ... to the Masoretic Text, suggesting that an ancestor of the Masoretic Text was ...

had written in favor of Alexander's ancestor, Alexander the First. This ... Artemis; Corinth was a center for the worship of Aphrodite; Delphi and ...

(anaa- "enemy," sází "ancestor").] The term was first ... Immense complexes known as "Great Houses" embodied worship ...

great-grandfather Haēcataspa was the ancestor of the whole family Spitāma ... Yasna, which can be translated to "worship of wisdom." Zoroastrians ...

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 ...

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 ...

“anti” were the focus of I-Kiribati worship before Protestant missionaries ... (identified by having a common ancestor). Inheritance of property ...

non-Christian religion, which involves ancestor worship and spiritual intercession; the Mbira Dza Vadzimu, which means "Voice of the Ancestors ...

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 ...

may have evolved from a common lizard ancestor that was venomous, from ... The axial skeleton of the snakes' common ancestor had, like most ...

as a religious offering is usually limited to ancestor veneration and worship of village deities. Vegetarian deities, such as the Buddha, are not ...

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 ...

is a pantheistic system, centering on the worship of "Heaven" as ... Ancestor worship was a major religious practice shared among all Chinese ...

to the biblical patriarch Tirash, the ancestor of the Thracians and Etruscans. ... Etruscan religious ritual and worship also influenced Rome's ...

ceremonial rites of Confucianism and ancestor worship were primarily social ... lived, worked and held property jointly; worship often included speaking ...

of the Puru lineage, was the eponymous ancestor of the Kurus and the founder ... * Fergusson, James. The Tree and Serpent Worship: Illustrations of ...

dead are venerated; this is commonly called ancestor worship. Funeral rites can be traced back to the most primitive of societies. In the Shanidar ...

Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, whose own ancestor, Vuk Karadñic (1787-1884 ... vestiges of a group, such as places of worship, cemeteries, and cultural ...

practice other Han Chinese customs, like ancestor worship at graves. The Uyghurs of Hunan do not speak the Uyghur language, instead, they speak Chinese ...

Arabs believed to be their common ancestor. Adnan in turn is said to ... that Muhammad had never taken part in idol worship (just as Abraham kept himself ...

Natural theology can thus be considered the ancestor of today’s ... to that belief. Henotheists, for example, worship only one of the many gods ...

quot; and he became the eponymous ancestor of the line. In it were ... site of their grandest architecture. The worship of Lajja Gauri, the fertility ...

adopted solely to perform the duties of ancestor worship.Werner F. Menski, Comparative Law in a Global Context: The Legal Systems of Asia and Africa ...

tend to condemn them to be superstitions or demon worship that should be abandoned. Many of the Christian churches are influential in politics. The best ...

such as its unique cuisine and ancestor worship. ==Sports== [[Image:Taekwondo Fight 01.jpg|thumb|300px|Taekwondo sparring match.]] ...

King Gesar is considered the founding ancestor of the Kham Tibetans. Linguists ... offenses are not allowed to return to their worship. ===Language=== ...

account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers ... prove that Jefferson himself was their ancestor. Three studies were released ...

is, according to Armenian tradition, the ancestor of all Armenians. Akkadian ... It particularly focused on the worship of Mihr (Avestan Mithra ...

their national religious customs and the worship of devils, acceptance of ... to Charlemagne. He is without a doubt an ancestor of every royal family of Europe. ...

those regions where he allowed natives to worship freely. The results of all ... he believed (as most Romans) that his ancestor Appius Claudius Caecus had ...

Middle Persian, which was the immediate ancestor of Modern Persian. A great ... a wide variety of moral virtues, like worship of one God, religious uprightness ...