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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		In traditional Christian Churches of Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, veneration (Latin veneratio, Greek δουλια dulia), or veneration of saints, is a special act of honoring a dead person who has been identified as singular in the traditions of the religion, and through them honoring God who made them and in whose image they are made.
		Veneration is often shown outwardly by respectfully bowing or making the sign of the cross before a saint's icon, relics, or statue.
		In Protestantism, and other monotheistic religions such as Islam and Judaism, veneration is sometimes considered to amount to the heresy of idolatry, and the related practice of canonization amounts to the heresy of apotheosis.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=veneration (477 words)

	Day of the Dead Celebrates Spiritual Tradition
		On the days prior to the arrival of the visiting souls of the dead, flowers are gathered, bread baked and favorite foods of the departed prepared.
		According to the Catholic religion, the little children's souls are venerated as a remembrance of the innocent children and might lose their way, a path of zempasuchitl (marigold) petals are laid in a trial from the cemetery to their home, or a firecracker may be set off at the family's house.
		The dead partake of the food in spirit, and the living eat it afterward, but usually not until after midnight November 2, when all the traveling souls are full.
	www.epcc.edu /ftp/Homes/monicaw/borderlands/09_day_of_dead.htm (1189 words)

	Death cults
		The veneration of the dead plays an important role in mythology and (nature) religions.
		Although the death cults and burial rituals may be different among the nature religions, the reasons are the same; either affection towards the deceased or else fear for the soul wandering in the vicinity of the corpse and which must be appeased (with offerings, prayers, incantations).
		The mummification of the dead, which originated in the belief of life after death, was an important part of the death cults too.
	www.pantheon.org /mythica/articles/d/death_cults.html (264 words)

	Veneration - OrthodoxWiki
		Veneration is distinct from worship, for worship is a total giving over of the self to be united with God, while veneration is showing delight for what God has done.
		Veneration is part of worship to the Orthodox faithful, but they show love and respect to more than the God they worship.
		The reverence and veneration shown to icons, however, is not directed to mere paint, wood, or stones, but towards the saints depicted.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Veneration (445 words)

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		Hallowtide is a time to remember and honor the dead, and it is a time when the "veil between the worlds," this world and the next, is "thinner" than normally.
		Thus "Totensonntag" (Sunday of the Dead) was initiated, to be celebrated by Protestants on the Sunday before the first Sunday in Advent.
		All dead of a village will congregate for the "Geistermesse." All living members of a family try to return to their native village.
	www.serve.com /shea/germusa/allsaint.htm (1364 words)

	Religion and Customs in Melanesia
		The spirit invoked is not in the image, but the image represents the spirits, some dead chief perhaps who has become a powerful spirit; the offering laid before such an image is not to the image, but to the spirit whom the image recalls or represents.
		After death great power is attributed to the skull of the dead man. The heads of enemies killed in fight were preserved as trophies, and a powerful chief would make large collections of the skulls of those killed by or for him.
		Earth burial in a shallow grave in the garden or near the hut of the dead is common.
	anglicanhistory.org /oceania/sx_booklet2.html (2840 words)

	Answers to the Bible Answer Man-Concerning Catholicism, Idolatry
		The invocation and veneration of the dead saints is agreeable to the usage of the Catholic Church.
		The dead bodies of human beings are to be venerated, that is, worshipped and adored, by the believers.
		Praying to dead saints, veneration of dead bodies, worshipping before relics and images, kissing idols and prostrating before them, are the greatest of abuses.
	www.contendingforthefaith.com /responses/bible-answer-man/appendix/bam-on-catholicism.html (2598 words)

	CULTURE AND LITURGY
		An ancestral altar dedicated to the veneration of the ancestors may be placed under the altar dedicated to God, provided that nothing smacking of superstition such as the “white soul” [the white cloth representing the dead] is placed there.
		During the marriage rites, the bride and groom are permitted to perform the “ceremony of veneration toward the ancestors” in front of the ancestral altar or the repository of the ancestors.
		The oft-invoked distinction between “veneration” and “cult” of ancestors, accepting the former and condemning the latter, is more for the benefits of Western Christians caught in the issue of iconoclasm and the Protestant reformers’ attack on the cult of the saints.
	members.cox.net /vientrietdao/bao/ancestor.html (8944 words)

	Wikinfo \| Relic
		The preservation of relics is a primitive instinct, and it is associated with shamanism as well as many other developed religious systems besides that of Christianity.
		In some denominations of Christianity, a relic is an object of religious veneration, especially a piece of the body or a personal item of a saint.
		Relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage of time, especially an object or custom whose original culture has disappeared, but also an object cherished for historical or memorial value (such as a keepsake or heirloom).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Relic (662 words)

	Beyond The Obvious
		The most important precondition for the development of the new literature of the dead was the completely changed religious and social situation, as compared with the period of the Pyramids, during the rise of the Middle Kingdom.
		The general intention of the Book of the Dead was to help the deceased person to withstand the judgement of the Osirian court in the next world and to guarantee his happiness in the future life.
		The vignettes of the Book of the Dead make this purpose quite clear, the metamorphoses through which the dead pass, and the court where the heart is measured against the symbol of Truth.
	website.lineone.net /~raphaele/sacredwritings2.html (2650 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Agape
		The celebration of funeral feasts in honour of the dead dates back almost to the beginnings of the worship of the departed - that is, to the very earliest times.
		The dead, in the region beyond the tomb, were thought to derive both pleasure and advantage from these offerings.
		A feeling of veneration for the dead inspired the funeral banquet, a feeling closely akin to a Christian inspiration.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01200b.htm (1700 words)

	carmelite.com > Youth > YCG > The Place of Relics
		During the Roman persecutions, the veneration of the relics of martyrs spread quickly, although it was not accompanied by a liturgy until the 3rd century.
		In the course of the 4th and 5th centuries, the veneration of the relics of martyrs grew as a liturgical cult, receiving theological justification through recourse to the doctrine of the mystical body of Christ.
		The correct veneration of relics looks beyond what is visible and material to God's love at work in the saint, to the inspiration of the saint's life and to God's good pleasure in confirming the virtue of the saint by signs and cures.
	www.carmelite.com /youth/relics.shtml (3383 words)

	All Saint's Day
		All Saints' Day is a Christian festival, remembering those dead who do not have their own proper saints' days, and rejoicing in their memory -- it is also the patronal festival of many churches (including mine, in both Kenya and Ireland!), and transcends Christian denominations, being celebrated by all.
		"Totensonntag" (Sunday of the Dead) was initiated, to be celebrated by Protestants on the Sunday before the first Sunday in Advent.
		What is missing from that article is any mention of the fantastic folk-art imagery of the dead (Memento mori) that is often associated with the celebration, or how elaborate some of the altars or shrines (Ofrendas) might be.
	www.geocities.com /worldkigo/allsaints.html (674 words)

	Clannada na Gadelica - Gaelic Traditionalist Resource Site
		Another aspect of Celtic culture that points toward a definite veneration for the dead are the rituals that surround the death of a relative.
		As ancestor veneration is still practiced by most traditional peoples, from the Orient to the Balkans to Central America, and, as we have glimpses that such was also the case amongst our Gaelic ancestors, so should we bring this back as well in full force.
		Those who venerate the Tuatha De Danann and Fir Bolg will probably be reading from the lore, praying and sharing the lessons and values of that perspective with their family members there.
	www.clannada.org /culture_ancestor.php (4616 words)

	Clannada na Gadelica - Gaelic Traditionalist Resource Site
		The lack of evidence pertaining to actual veneration of the ancestors, in and of themselves, leads the student to believe that the influential body of this cultural development may have originated apart from the Central European Celt.
		There are also consistencies in the materials with which the dead are interred; pieces of pottery and personal affects are found throughout the burial cists of the monuments.
		Another aspect of Celtic culture which points toward a definite veneration for the dead are the rituals which surround the death of a relative.
	www.clannada.org /culture_ancestors.php (3001 words)

	mtpg
		The Totanacs' believed that the souls of the dead pass to a world where no one suffers, but need the help of the living to reach the place of immortality.
		Today families celebrating Day of the Dead can be found feasting together in honor of their dead friends, family members, and the Totanc gods.
		The altars consist of a personal altar or the altar used for the veneration of the dead through the Catholic Saints.
	www.lawndaleartcenter.org /dod/mtpg.htm (1234 words)

	veneration - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		the feeling of a person who venerates; a feeling of awe, respect, etc.; reverence: They were filled with veneration for their priests.
		an expression of this feeling: A memorial was erected in veneration of the dead of both world wars.
		The condition or status of one who is venerated.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/veneration (145 words)

	Rating manual - Volume 5 - Section 310 : Cemeteries and Burial Grounds - Practice Note 1 : 2005 : Revaluation 2005
		It is reported that some London Boroughs have no land available for the burial of the dead.
		In previous centuries burial grounds in this country were continuously re-used and were ordinarily capable of accommodating the dead of the parish indefinitely.
		This Victorian innovation for the veneration of the dead, brought about the concept of a grave “in perpetuity”.
	www.voa.gov.uk /instructions/chapters/rating_manual/vol5/sect310/h-rat-man-vol5-s310-pn1-2005.htm (2176 words)

	The Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran
		While other scrolls have been discovered since, in caves all along the Dead Sea, the scrolls at Qumran are by far the most important as far as Christians are concerned because they are the only ones throughout the Dead Sea region that pre-date or are contemporary with Jesus Christ.
		All the other Dead Sea Scrolls are later works which bear the trademark of the Jewish Rabbinical School at Jamnia.
		Because these later Dead Sea Scrolls were all penned after these shattering events had taken place, one cannot be certain that they were not written with an eye to counter and block the events and teachings that were swirling about them at the time.
	members.aol.com /Wisdomway/deadseascrolls.htm (4379 words)

	Ghouls, Ghosts and Goblins > The Good News : September/October 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		It was on this day that Samhain judged the dead and could be persuaded to free some departed souls from their animal prisons.
		The Celts believed that the dead rose on the eve of Samhain and that ancestral ghosts and demons were set free to roam the earth, harm crops and trouble homes.
		The prayers to a myriad of gods and goddesses, demons and nymphs would be replaced with prayers to dead Christian saints.
	www.gnmagazine.org /issues/gn42/ghosts.htm (1659 words)

	Do Souls of the Dead Return Back to this World?
		The Qareen, who was a constant companion of the dead person and knew his entire life history, will be able to mimic the voice of the deceased and answer any questions accurately (about the dead person's life), thus fooling those present into believing that they are in the presence of spirits.
		By pretending to be returned souls of the dead along with the performance of extraordinary feats, they deceive people into believing in the powers of the dead.
		Another widespread fallacy is the concept of spirit-possession, during which a supposed spirit (of a dead person) occupies the human body and the individual experiences fits and epilepsy.
	www.ahya.org /amm/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=160 (5687 words)

	The Agape Feast Catholic Encyclopedia
		The celebration of funeral feasts in honour of the dead dates back almost to the beginnings of the worship of the departed.
		However, the Agape was for the poor and was really a feast with and for the dead much like the Marzeah condemned by Amos 5-8 as a musical festival which destroyed the Feast upon the Word of the Living God.
		A common message on tombstones was that the dead are in the presence of eternal joy: food, shelter, warmth and the extreme idleness typified by musical instruments.
	www.piney.com /AgapeCE.html (2303 words)

	Lives of the Saints
		Together with the Martyrdom of St. Polycarp, information on the veneration of the Saints derives from the Martyrdom of the Martyrs of Scilli, a small town in North Africa (end of the second century).
		Likewise we also venerate the figures and the effigies (morphas, eikonismata) of the divine and all-lauded Apostles, the God-speaking Prophets, and the suffering martyrs and holy men, so that through their representations (anazografiseos) we may be able to be led back in memory and recollections to the prototype, and participate in their holiness"
		The faithful participate in these feasts to listen to an encomiastic speech praising the deeds or the martyrdom of the venerated saint, and in general to derive spiritual profit.
	www.goarch.org /en/resources/saints (2289 words)

	NPS Archeology Program: Common Ground Online
		During the 18th and early 19th centuries, offerings were taken to the mound and placed in a large hole at the top.
		The small mounds that were noticed in 1854 may have been constructed by the Choctaw for their dead.
		The only well-documented public religious activities have to do with the burial and veneration of the dead.
	www.cr.nps.gov /archeology/cg/vol1_num1/mother.htm (878 words)

	Funerals by Sean Froyd, Froyd.net
		Be they good christian burials, cremations and ashes in the urns, or cannibalizing the corpse to infuse the dead's warrior spirit, all show some respect for the daed.
		This time, the dead had been cremated shortly after his death, which was a couple of months before the funeral.
		I don't know, but the fact that there has been some sort of veneration of the dead since the times of prehistory lends some sort of credence to the whole after death experience.
	www.froyd.net /wword/funeral.htm (754 words)

	The Place of Holy Relics in the Orthodox Church
		By piously venerating the holy relics of the Saints, the Church reveres them as temples of the Holy Spirit, temples of the Living God, in which God dwells by Grace even after the earthly death of the Saints.
		Saint Damascene, summarizing the life-giving teaching of Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition concerning the pious veneration of holy relics, preaches in a Cherubic manner from the altar of his God-bearing and Christ-like soul: "The Saints have become according to grace that which the Lord Christ is according to nature.
		The universal faith of the Church concerning the pious veneration of holy relics was confirmed by the God-bearing Fathers of the Seventh cumenical Synod in its decrees: "Our Lord Jesus Christ granted to us the relics of Saints as a salvation-bearing source which pours forth varied benefits on the infirm.
	www.orthodoxphotos.com /Holy_Relics (2580 words)

	Beyond Bali - East Java - Surabaya - Places of Interest - Beyond Bali
		People gather around the tomb to pray and ask for favours, although veneration of the dead is strictly forbidden under islam.
		The Chinese population married and mingled with the local people while retaining their own identity, and consequently Chinese and local elements have fused in both cuisine and culture.
		Signs of the Chinese veneration for their deceased relatives can be seen in the 'ash houses' places built for ancestral worship, which often occupy a whole building on a piece of real estate worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
	www.bali-paradise.com /beyondbali/east-java/places.cfm (1065 words)

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