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	Ancestor worship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ancestor worship (拜祖), also ancestor veneration (敬祖), is a religious practice based on the belief that one's ancestors possess supernatural powers.
		Rather, ancestor worship involves the same sort of religious practices one sees when people appease or supplicate other entities thought to exist and possess supernatural powers, such as gods, angels, saints, or demons.
		Ancestor worship in some cultures (such as Chinese) seeks to honor the deeds, memories, and sacrifice of the deceased.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancestor_worship (297 words)

	FORTES- SOME REFLECTIONS ON ANCESTOR WORSHIP IN AFRICA
		Officiating in ancestor worship, as opposed to participatingin group worship, is the prerogative of succession to the office orstatus of the class of ancestors to whom worship and offerings aregiven in a specific context of social structure and occasion.
		Ancestor worship isa representation or extension of the authority component in the juralrelations of successive generations; it is not a duplication, in asuper natural idiom, of the total complex of affective, educative,and supportive relationships manifested in child-rearing, or in marriage,or in any other form of association, however long-lasting and intimate,between kinsmen, neighbours, or friends.
		Ancestors areapt to be demanding, persecutory, and interfering for one reason becauseparents appear thus to their children when they are exercising authorityover them, but also, in the wider sense, because this is a particularlyeffective way of representing the sovereignty or authority and right.
	www.afrikaworld.net /afrel/fortes2.html (6233 words)

	Burourchee
		Some say that he was a discarded thought from the great trickster spirit and this may be true, because Burourchee and his friends and children wander from place to place in a great troupe living by what they can find or take, drinking and having so much fun that other spirits are jealouse.
		Only baboons with shamanic ancestors may become shaman in this tradition as a shamanic ancestor spirit is required to act as the shamans fetch.
		When the Eater spirit of darkness came to devour Burourchee with death hidden in its teeth he fooled it by putting a block of truestone wrapped in a fur skin in his sleeping place.
	www.glorantha.com /hw/fan/magical_burourchee.html (525 words)

	Samsara - a movie by Ron Fricke, the sequel to Baraka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Four ancestor spirits will accompany us as we follow several families from different cultures through the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
		We follow the cycle of life from birth to death focusing on four people, modern representatives of ancestor spirits, and experiences the diversity of their rituals and routines.
		Spirit must confront the consequences of its pass through human life and comes to terms with it.
	spiritofbaraka.com /samsara.aspx (1098 words)

	Nushi Spirits
		Many ancestor spirits are well over a hundred years old, and some speak of the coming of Marco Polo to China in their lifetimes.
		All ancestor spirits are themselves the shades of those who respected tradition in life, and took council from the ancestors of ages past.
		To their wu, ancestor spirits provide an additional five Willpower points per story; these must be distributed among the members of the wu, and like normal Willpower can be spent to gain automatic successes on rolls — though such rolls should be spent on activities in line with one's Hun.
	www.geocities.com /predaphile/wod-kote-nushi.html (2375 words)

	Backgrounds
		Ancestor Spirits of both Tribes still exist and still feel their Tribal loyalties, just don't expect them to treat their great great granddaughters as any different from any other members of their Tribes.
		The spirits may be fearful of you, respectful towards you, in awe of you, loving of you, or protective of you.
		Mokole` most often make use of a wide range of bird spirits for their networks, as bird spirits are often willing to give information in trade for being allowed to rest on them and eat stray bits from between the teeth of the Mokole`.
	www.angelfire.com /games5/futurespast/backgrounds.html (6532 words)

	helpers
		Spirit helpers are the oversouls of entire species, so for each shaman adopted by Bear, there is a particular sponsoring Bear species.
		When my spirit ancestor first came to me, I met her in a wooded clearing with a bonfire.
		Spirit helpers have gone through a process of purification so complex that it is difficult for mere humans to comprehend.
	www.mythkenner.com /helpers.html (813 words)

	Rich Burlew, game designer of THE FUTURE!
		Spirit of the Ancestor (Su): As the bearer learns to channel her ancestor, the previous owner's spirit comes to reside in the weapon itself.
		The ancestor has difficulty manifesting its will at first, but as the bearer continues her meditations and follows the path of the weapon, the spirit gains in power.
		The bearer presumably attempts to contact an ancestor of similar tendencies as her own; the spirit's alignment is thus always within one step of that of the bearer herself.
	www.giantitp.com /Func0005.html (2381 words)

	- -:[LoreWeaver>Pages>People>Arcana>Spirit Domain]:- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For example, domain over the spirits of nature allows you to cast compel spirit I (nature), but you may only cast compel spirit I (ancestor) if you have access to the ancestor spirit domain.
		This spell compels a spirit who obeys one instruction, whether that be to attack an enemy spirit or bestow one charm.
		When you use a compulsion spell to summon an ancestor, animal or nature spirit, it is a spell of that type.
	r4bid.net /LoreWeaver/Arcana/domain_spirit.html (230 words)

	Delerium: Resources
		Once humans tamed fire to keep them warm and to drive off the wild beasts, they were on their way to civilization.
		The spirits of flame agree to hold back their hunger when the werewolf touches them.
		Spirits within 100 feet of the character (except pack totems or caern spirits) must subtract one from their dice pools for each success.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/wicked_city/gifts_homid.html (1250 words)

	Irian Jaya - Tribal Art of the Asmat Region
		Previously, after the festival, the figure is discarded into the forests near a sago tree because it was believed that as the wood of the carving is deteriorated, the power of the ancestor was transferred to the sago palm.
		It is named after him and the ancestor's spirit is believed to be present in the shield and make the owner fierce, powerful and invincible.
		The spirit in the shield must be properly treated or it might cause disease, or doom hunting efforts and rot the sago palms.
	www.janesoceania.com /png_art (877 words)

	Family Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		These spirits or beings are forces with energy and power, but they cannot be seen.
		Even though spirits cannot be seen, during a masquerade, each spirit is still recognized by the community through the name of the masquerade, the music that accompanies the masquerade, the mask's design and costume, and its dance movements.
		Ancestor spirits are spirits of elders or important people who have died a long time ago.
	www.africanart.org /facingthemask/family/what_represent.html (191 words)

	The Urantia Book: On-line Text
		God is spirit in a threefold sense: He himself is spirit; in his Son he appears as spirit without qualification; in the Conjoint Actor, as spirit allied with mind.
		The Conjoint Creator is the ancestor of the cosmic mind, and the mind of man is an individualized circuit, an impersonal portion, of that cosmic mind as it is bestowed in a local universe by a Creative Daughter of the Third Source and Center.
		The spirit personalities of the vast family of the Divine and Infinite Spirit are forever dedicated to the service of the ministry of the love of God and the mercy of the Son to all the intelligent creatures of the evolutionary worlds of time and space.
	beamsdoorway.bizland.com /urantia/urantiabook/ppr009.htm (4640 words)

	Spirit-House
		A spirit house must be in a prominent place on the property but far enough to keep the spirits away from the main building.
		Formerly, the spirit house used to be made of wood in the traditional Thai style or in the form of a wooden pavilion, mounted on a single column.
		Later spirits were ranked and grouped because of Indian cultural influence: thep or thevada is a high ranking spirit similar to the western concept of a god, goddess, or divinity.
	www.usmta.com /Spirit-House.htm (644 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Spirit masks are worn to appease the spirits in the spirit world.
		By wearing the mask and "becoming" one of the spirits, these spirits are made happy so they will help or, in the case of funerals, leave the tribe.
		Ancestor masks are worn to reenact tribal histories and to call upon the spirits of those ancestors to help the tribe in some way.
	domin.dom.edu /students/trybjenn/types.html (241 words)

	Learn more about Religion in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For example, Hinduism claims to be the science of the spirit.
		Shamanistic religions are a broad category of religions based around worship of ancestors or spirits rather than "Gods." Shamanistic religions typically are limited to small geographical areas and rarely achieve national or international organization.
		The monotheism of Islam and Judaism is much more clear cut, although very early sources for both Allah and Yahweh show signs of henotheistic or polytheistic origins or forerunners, which do not at all deny their sole Deity status once the religion became established.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /r/re/religion.html (4553 words)

	THE CULT OF ANCESTORS in Malagasy Culture
		In Sakalava tribes (a tribe in the north west part of Madagascar), people directly communicate with their ancestors during a special ceremony where some chosen person will be possessed by an ancestor's spirit.
		The ancestor's spirit gets into the possessed person to expresse her/his pieces of advice, recommendations as well as the charms to use through him or her.
		For example, people have to organize a "famadihana" (renewal of the ancestor's shroud) after one of the ancestor's relatives has dreamt about the ancestor, who complained to be cold.
	www.geocities.com /fontsy/gael.htm (588 words)

	New Stuff
		Spirits of screech-owls, loons, doves or other plaintive songsters typically inhabit this type of fetish.
		System: (L 2 G 6) Successful use reduces the difficulty to summon a particular spirit (or spirit type) by 1; difficulties to summon ancestor spirits are decreased by 2.
		The Umbral realms are filled with spirits and emanations that cannot be brought to the physical world.
	www.bmarch.atfreeweb.com /new_stuff.htm (3617 words)

	This Strange Archipelago - Communication With the Dead's Family
		The spirit said there's nothing to cry for him because it was his time to die and he already got a good place.
		His son asked about his last request and the spirit said he wanted to bring his favorite cloth and new sarong with his cremation and there's nothing to worry about the pagoda and the procession, he really appreciated and could accepted it.
		At the end all the family can accept the spirit request and there were some happy faces because they knew that the spirit had got a good place in his next life.
	www.indo.com /featured_article/communication.html (400 words)

	The fundamentals of Odinani
		Mmuo is the spirit of ancestors who lived, died, and moved on to the great unknown, the other side of the realm.
		Ancestor spirits are more commonly known by the collective term "Ndiichie." A respected, living elder can therefore be called ichie —a living saint.
		Dealing with this spirits and deities is known by the same term "igommuo" or "ilommuo" ("to placate or ask of the dear departed/living-dead/ancestor spirit").
	www.kwenu.com /odinani/odinani.htm (1963 words)

	Spirit Guides
		There, Spirit Guide is defined as follows: "A being or energy which has no material body, although it has that potential open to it to do so that it may again incarnate on the earth if it chooses to do so.
		A Spirit Guide is a highly evolved spirit who has spent many incarnations on the earth and has grown in spirituality and purity.
		The Spirit Teacher has learned all the lessons that can be provided on earth and is therefore given the distinction of teacher.
	www.psychicsupport.com /spirit_guide.htm (2090 words)

	Asmat Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The ancestors for whom they are named live within them, embody them, and give such power, force, and fierceness to the owner that he feels invincible.
		The combination of the ancestor's strength and the strength of the symbolic designs carved and painted on the shield's surface terrifies the enemy so that he runs away or drops his weapons and becomes immobilized.
		This spirit may even become full-bodied to the extent that it can be seen walking around and talking to people, as if it had not died.
	www.asmat.org /default.cfm/PID=1.6.5 (818 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Chesa or ancestor worship is practiced based on the belief that one's ancestor's spirit has the ability to "protect" later generations.
		One's ancestor is one of the perminant gods that reside with one's family.
		When another generation of the partilinal unilineal descendent dies, the wooden tablet of the oldest ancestor (hence the deceased's great great grandfather) is buried, thus leaving the surviving generation with only four generation of obligations.
	www.dpg.devry.edu /~akim/sck/jehsa.htm (345 words)

	Headline Muse.com - What is a Myth? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At sunrise on the appointed day the seventh ancestor Spirit spat out eighty threads of cotton; these he distributed between his upper teeth which acted as the teeth of a weaver's reed.
		As the threads crossed and uncrossed, the two tips of the Spirit's forked tongue pushed the thread of the weft to and fro, and the web took shape from his mouth in the breath of the second revealed Word.
		A primal ancestor Spirit, Nummo, moved his tongue to create the cloth, which is emitted from his mouth simultaneously as breath, word and fabric (Griaule 28).
	www.headlinemuse.com /Culture/meaningmyth.htm (2133 words)

	What is a Masquerade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If the mask represents an ancestor, the community does not perceive of the event as a performance in which a certain individual wears an ancestor mask.
		In general, masks can be loosely categorized as ancestor spirits, mythical characters such as gods, royal figures, warriors, nature or bush spirits, spirits that are capable of possessing human hosts, and some masks even depict everyday people in the community.
		This idea of the spirit being made "real" in the form of the mask is a complex phenomenon, particularly when compared to masks in western society.
	www.africanart.org /facingthemask/teachers/teacher_masquerade_more.html (344 words)

	The Dugu Ritual of the Garinagu of Belize: Reinforcing Values of Society through Music and Spirit Possession - Questia ...
		This examination of dugu is based on the hypothesis that music is a mediating agent that connects people and their ancestors for the purpose of maintaining family solidarity and reinforcing traditional norms and values of society.
		The objective here is to show how spirit possession and music are used to reinforce social values during an ancestor placation ritual.
		To better understand and interpret how music and ancestor spirit possession in this rite reinforce social values, concepts concerning the reorientation of time, cultural relativism, and consanguineous descent are discussed.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5001415047 (476 words)

	Aumakuas, or Ancestor-Ghosts
		Sometimes the body or the bones would be cast into the crater of Kilauea, the people thinking the spirit would become a flame of fire like Pele, the goddess of volcanoes; other spirits went into the air concealed in the dark depths of the sky, perhaps in the clouds.
		They became ancestor ghost-gods and dwelt on the islands near the homes of their worshippers, or in the air above, or in the trees around the houses, or in the ocean or in the glowing fires of volcanoes.
		They believed that the spirits of these friends appeared in the night, sometimes to kill any one who was in the way.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pac/hlog/hlog27.htm (2211 words)

	West African Artifacts
		The Mmwo Society maiden spirit mask of the Ibo is a large ancestor spirit mask from Nigeria.
		This mask is produced for a spirit (Mmwo) society to be worn at the end of the dry season and at funerals when the ancestor is believed to speak through the mask.
		The Spirit of Africa Collection was assembled in the early 1970's by Commander Neil Nokes, a current Memphis resident who at the time was a naval attache stationed in Liberia.
	www.people.memphis.edu /~artmuseum/africa.html (242 words)

	Taoism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mediums — in a trance the ancestor spirit speaks though the medium.
		Oracles — speaks the words of by standing spirits and is healer, seer, and village leader.
		Spirit Claud Taoists — mainly concerned with meditation not rituals.
	www.biblefacts.org /history/tao.html (189 words)

	Ayahuasca -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		While the DMT can be thought of as creating the desired state, the vine itself is considered by many to be the "spirit" of the tea; it is the gatekeeper to the other realms and the guide through the experience, controlling access to the altered states and helping one navigate them.
		Traditionally, Caapi is and has been the defining ingredient of the tea.
		DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ay/ayahuasca.htm (1163 words)

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