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	Ancestor worship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ancestor worship is a religious practice based on the belief that deceased family members have a continued existence, take an interest in the affairs of the world, and possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living.
		The goal of ancestor worship is to ensure the ancestors' continued well-being and positive disposition towards the living and sometimes to ask for special favors or assistance.
		Ancestor worship in some cultures (such as Chinese) (拜祖, pinyin: bàizǔ), also ancestor veneration (敬祖, pinyin: jìngzǔ), seeks to honor the deeds, memories, and sacrifice of the deceased.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancestor-worship (901 words)

	Ancestor worship - L5r: Legend of the Five Rings
		The reverence and worship of departed ancestors is the oldest form of religion in Rokugan.
		It is believed that after death, the spirits of the departed live on in one of several Spirit Realms, and that they can see and even interact with their descendants still alive in Ningen-do, especially those who have entered Yomi -- Realm of the Blessed Ancestors.
		The reverence of ancestors among the heimin is a preventative measure done to stave off ill effects of disgruntled spirits.
	l5r.wikia.com /wiki/Ancestor_worship (952 words)

	Historical Development Of The Family
		The house father, as representative of the departed ancestors, was necessarily controlled by religious scruples and traditions.
		After the bride had been released from the worship of her father's ancestors, the bridegroom and his friends brought her to his father's house, where a ceremony of adoption was practically gone through with, adopting the bride into the family of her husband.
		Inasmuch as the early Roman family was based upon ancestor worship, a religion which was fitted for relatively small isolated groups, it was inevitable that the family life should decay with this ancestor worship.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles30/sociology-6.shtml (3407 words)

	The Inscriptions in the Cross Creek Presbyterian Church Graveyard index, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
		Memorial of Obadiah J. Campbell, who was born May, 1814; graduated in 1840; was a Candidate for the office of the Holy Ministry, under the care of the Presbytery of Washington, and deceased on the 12th of Sept. 1842.
		In memory of James Cooke, who departed this life Dec. 1st, 1830, in the 73rd year of his age.He was a soldier of the Revolution.
		Genealogy is the study of family pedigrees, the descent of a person or family from an ancestor, generation by generation.
	www.ancestorsatrest.com /cemetery_records/cross-creek.shtml (7773 words)

	The Inscriptions in the Cross Creek Presbyterian Church Graveyard index, Washington County, Pennsylvania M to Z.
		In memory of Catherine Marquis, who departed this life Dec. the 28th, 1818, in the 25th year of her age.
		Her husband, Samuel Robinson was killed by the Indians in the spring of 1782 on the farm of Rober Stewart, in Jefferson township and is buried by her side.
		Ancestors At Rest reminds you that when looking for death records for your family tree online to be careful when spelling interment.
	ancestorsatrest.com /cemetery_records/cross-creek-pg2.shtml (8178 words)

	www.ghana.co.uk - History & Culture
		Ancestors and numerous other spirits are also recognized as part of the cosmological order.
		Veneration of departed ancestors is a major characteristic of all traditional religions.
		The ancestors are believed to be the most immediate link with the spiritual world, and they are thought to be constantly near, observing every thought and action of the living.
	www.ghana.co.uk /history/history/religion_traditionl.htm (471 words)

	Goddess in Glastonbury - Kathy Jones' website
		These First Ancestors are born of the earth and of the stars and have influenced all forms of life on earth throughout the ages.
		Our Ancestors are to be found from the time of the ending of the last Ice Age when the British Isles separated from the continent of Europe c.
		Another path to our Ancestors is through the study of the earliest myths and legends of the British people, comparing them with those of peoples who still maintain their ancestral traditions.
	www.kathyjones.co.uk /ana1.html (4487 words)

	Pitru Paksha
		Hence, Hindus consider this fortnight to be ideal for performing rites for ancestors, believing that during this period, subtle bodies of deceased ancestors from Lord Yama’s region (Yamalok) visit their relatives on earth.
		On this day, the rite for the departed (shraddha) is performed for one’s mother or any other woman in the family, who did not die a widow.
		This has led to significant number of the population suffering from problems created by the subtle bodies of ancestors, who suffer in inferior planes, as their smooth passage was not ensured.
	www.sanatan.org /en/festivals/hindu/pitrupaksha.htm (805 words)

	BK, "Erap’s dead ancestors to spook him to resign", 11/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A religious ritual to call on the departed ancestors of President Joseph Estrada in front of the Ejercito family's ancestral home in Pagsanjan, Laguna.
		Through prayers and ancient rituals, the group tried to woo the help of the departed ancestors of the President to convince their most "popular" living kin to heed the people's call for him to resign from office.
		The group formed a circle in the middle of the deserted street and prayed for the eternal repose of the departed ancestors of the President as they made one final plea to help enlightened him that it would be better for all if he will just leave his office.
	www.bwf.org /bk/2k/11/pagsanjan.html (805 words)

	Ways to Honor
		In many instances a place setting is sat for each of the departed that is being honored at the family meal.
		Drums are used to communicate with the ancestors and ask them for assistance in ritual and life.
		It is of interest to note that a prevalent holiday to honor the departed is for them at the New Year.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/druid/53/veilways.html (797 words)

	Ancestors and the Dunmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The ancestors are thus the protectors of the home, and especially the precincts of the Waiting Door.
		However, as a sign of great honor and sacrifice, an ancestor may grant that part of his remains be retained to serve as part of a ghost fence protecting the clan's shrine and family precincts.
		The human populations of Tamriel associate Dunmeri ancestor worship and spirit magic with necromancy; in fact, this association of the Dark Elves with necromancy is at least partly responsible for the dark reputation of Dunmer throughout Tamriel.
	til.gamingsource.net /mwbooks/ancestor.shtml (1329 words)

	ATH 175 Peoples of the World
		However, of most importance is the incorporation of departed ancestors which are believed to be living in the next world.
		This was to invite the ancestors to leave the hall and enter the houses of their descendants (Aijmer 2003:94).
		During the New Year celebrations the ancestors remain in the house and are served daily as guests; they are given towels, food and a place to rest (Bredon 1982:132).
	www.units.muohio.edu /ath175/student/ROEPEREM/interpretation.html (1122 words)

	African Specialist Features and Articles - Madagascar - Island of the Ancestors
		Dead ancestors are considered to be potent forces that continue to share in family life.
		For the turning of the bones a family will dig up their dead ancestors at the appropriate spiritual time and parade the deceased around the village, showing them the new developments, all the while talking to them as though they were alive.
		The family of the departed will have to feed hundreds of people at the feast that follows the re-burial, and this often bankrupts the family.
	www.africaguide.com /features/trvafmag/020.htm (2894 words)

	CHAPTER VII
		The ancestors, in their post-mortem condition, are credited with veritable moral perfection and are therefore not accessible to disgrace, but just because of their elevated moral status they are thought to be even more scandalized by wrong doing than the living elders of the family.
		The ancestors being so important in the affairs of the living and status being enhanced by longevity, it is useful to have permanent ancestors.
		First, in the case of morality, narrowly conceived, the ancestors can only enforce rules whose basis or validity is independent of their own wishes or decisions, whereas customs and taboos are frequently of their own making; and secondly, customs and taboos are more essential to the individuality of a culture than morality.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series02/II-1/chapter_vii.htm (5994 words)

	Religion in Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is the life of the spirits, of the souls, of the departed ancestors.
		The others, the remote ancestors, are represented on a communal tablet and receive worship on definite ritual days which are also numerous during the year.
		This is equally a form of the cult of ancestors; not only the common ancestors of a village, of a city, of the nation.
	www.vietspring.org /religion/ancestorcult.html (1576 words)

	Hawaii: Ching Ming Tradition in Hawai'i (Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots - Library of Congress)
		With origins dating back 3,000 years, the practice of Ching Ming is still observed worldwide by Chinese families, many miles and generations removed from their ancestral homeland.
		Ching meaning "pure" or "clean," Ming meaning "brightness," the words together are applied to the traditional Chinese tradition of ancestor worship, considered by many to be the original religion of China.
		Held on the fourth day of April, the event often becomes a family reunion at the graves of one's ancestors.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /cocoon/legacies/HI/200002882.html (386 words)

	The Ecclasian Fellowship - Articles - Samhain
		We call upon our ancestors to give us guidance and warnings of things that might come to pass in the coming year.
		Graveyards are filled with flowers and garlands and churches burn candles, sing funeral songs and pray for their departed.
		Some people go to graveyards and pencil in their names on the tombstones of their departed ancestors.
	members.aol.com /ecclasia1/samhain.html (1480 words)

	The Singapore Dakshina Bharatha Brahmana Sabha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mahalaya (Maha + Aalaya) means the abode of the departed great and it is believed that during this period, offering oblations and performance of obsequies and rites are recommended to get the blessings of the departed ancestors.
		If one's departed ancestor had embraced sanyasa, the Samaaradhana performed in respect of him during Mahalaya Paksham should be done on Dwadasi or 12th lunar day.
		during this period, not only the spirits of departed parents, grand-parents and great grand-parents are invoked, but those of step-mothers, if any, departed brothers if any, and even departed preceptors and pupils, and above all, Maha Vishnu, who is the protector of the Sraddhas, are also invoked.
	sdbbs.tripod.com /mahalaya.html (236 words)

	pitri-paksha-shraddha
		Hence a Shraddha is not a funeral ceremony but a Pitri-Yajna or worship of departed ancestors, which worship, however, is something different from a puja (ceremonial worship) to a god.
		On this day, the departed manes, i.e., our ancestors, leave their abode in the world of Yama and come down to the world of mortals and occupy the houses of their descendants.
		The principle in all such rites is the worship of the departed souls and the satisfaction of their wishes so that they might be in peace during the rest of the year.
	www.salagram.net /death-pitri-paksha-shraddha.html (5510 words)

	Propitiating The Ancestors
		Shraadh is a way of interacting with the departed soul and obtaining its best wishes and thus freeing it of all obligations it might feel towards its past progeny.
		One potent method of avoiding the evil tendencies of the ancestors and activating the good ones is performance of the Shraadh ritual using Vedic Mantras which resonate vehemently to purge a human of all evils.
		The best way hence is to use Sadhana as a mode of supplicating one’s departed ancestors and obtaining their blessings.
	www.siddhashram.org /s19980773.shtml (1496 words)

	Rituals and rites in Hinduism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		We are told that the departed souls can be elevated to higher planes of existence and pushed further on the scale of evolution if their direct descendents on earth, especially the male progeny perform some annual rites and make sacrificial offerings to them.
		So when a Hindu departs from this world, his descendents make ritualistic offerings as prescribed in the sacred texts so that the departed one makes further spiritual progress in those worlds also.
		The obligation towards the departed souls is thus a part of ones ordained duties, or obligatory karma, the performance of which brings happiness not only to the departed soul, but also to the ones who performed it.
	hinduwebsite.com /rites.htm (714 words)

	Ancestor Worship
		ancestor worship is our connection to the past and our road map to a better future" p 26.
		This writer goes on to show prayers for his departed ancestors by naming several of these ancestorssimilar to the "roll call" that Karenga includes in his Kwanzaa ceremonies.
		And even sadder is the mixture of the pagan ritual of ancestor worship and church services whose leadership have been duped into believing that Kwanzaa is merely a "cultural" event.
	www.christocentric.com /Kwanzaa/ancestor.htm (947 words)

	Interpreting Dream \| Understanding Dream Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was thought that the soul departed the body each night, and visited the world of the ancestors.
		During this time the dreamer’s soul was gathering knowledge and wisdom from departed ancestors, both recent and ancient.
		These people believed that their departed ancestors lived in their dreams, and that they were able to take forms like animals and plants.
	www.interpretingdream.net (1721 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Ancient Turkish Religious Beliefs (Pre-Islam) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The second was an ancestral cult in which the memories of departed ancestors and leaders were kept alive through reverence and animal sacrifice.
		For instance among the Asian Huns, horses and sheep were sacrificed to the sky god, to ancestors, and to the forces of nature during the first month of the year at the palace of their ruler, and in late spring (June) in the vicinity of the Ongkin river.
		The worship of departed leaders and the veneration of ancestors is thought to be a manifestation of a patriarchal social order in religion.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4017 (12000 words)

	Dancing with the Departed: Japanese Obon in the American West
		Many scholars believe that the practice carries on a pre-Buddhist custom of venerating ancestors and demonstrates the reciprocal nurturing that is central to the interaction of generations.
		The famous Japanese folklorist Yanagita Kunio (often referred to as the founder of Japanese folklore study) insisted that festivals like Obon are important precisely because they are physical, dramatic ways of engaging people in forming live symbols of their culture, no matter how abstract the ideas might seem.
		In the very act of celebrating (and celebrating with) ancestors, he said, people are keeping their culture alive and dynamic.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1994/august/cl2.cfm (3327 words)

	Historical Orientation
		It is this belief that gives significance to the feast of Anthesteria, at which time the departed souls were entertained and purified preparatory to taking again their abode in the realm of the living.
		On departed souls, or ghosts, the reproductive processes depended, and in addition the character of the offspring depended largely on that of the ghost and on the rites that were supposed to free and purify it from contamination with the underworld or realm of the dead.
		But now they have departed, leaving men largely free to work out their own destiny with the aid of the various arts and virtues given by the gods.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles33n/instinct-2.shtml (10682 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Malaysia \| All hell breaks loose
		Historically, families offer newly harvested grain to departed ancestors on this day, which also coincides with the Buddhist Ullambana (Deliverance) Festival and the Ghost Festival.
		To the Buddhists, the seventh month is a time to remember departed ancestors with prayers in the temple.
		However, it is the duty of the living to pray for the departed since we can’t give them material goods.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=1,2948,0,0,1,0 (1979 words)

	pitr-paksha
		The last day of this period, the new moon day (Amavasya), is considered as the most important day in the year for performing obsequies and rites (or in simple terms offerings to our dearly departed ancestors).
		Due to the grace of Yamaraja, it has been ordained that offerings made during this period benefit all the departed souls, whether they are connected to you or not.
		Besides, Pitr Puja is a memorial service in which the devotee remembers as well as prays, addressing the departed he says: "O Pitrs in whichever form you may be, wherever you may be, we wish to remember and pray for your peace and welfare".
	www.salagram.net /asaucham-pitr-paksha.html (1913 words)

	The Passage of Universal Salvation -- Ghost Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Historically, families offer sacrifices of the newly harvested grain to departed ancestors on this day, which also coincides with the Buddhist Ullambana (Deliverance) Festival and the Taoist Ghost Festival.
		Since each of these traditions in some way honors the spirits of the departed the seventh lunar month has come to be known as Ghost Month, celebrated as a time when the "Good Brethren," ghosts from the underworld, come back to earth to feast on the victuals offered by the living.
		In Taiwan, Ghost Festival is passed by slaughtering a pig and sheep, which together with a prodigious table of wine and meat is offered to one's ancestors and ghosts from the underworld.
	www.gio.gov.tw /info/festival_c/ghost_e/ghost.htm (334 words)

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