Ancestor worship has its greatest influence on chinese and African
religious and is found is Japanese of
native . The social or non -religious functions
of ancestor veneration is
to cultivate. In their atterlives as well as seek their guidance
for their living descendants .. Chinesa and other buddlist influences and
confucian – influenced societies .
Aric
as elders in africa the african
empahsis is clearly not on the
parties integraute june structure plus large
the setiorite, dans laquelle is to treat eleers separately group
ancestors and this my infleunce usuall the ancestor is viewed as nearer to God than living relatives are. One
resposent
told us that the ancestors
worship living dead who hold
influence over their living descendents
is a cuccinct and common way of defining
acestors. Spriritually the
haman community can live fully as human beings created by God. Ancestors have needs just like the
surving descendants. It is the ancestors
have in your daily life.
Misconceptions about evolution because evolution in slom, human cnanot infleunce
it. Each trait is infleunced by one
mendelian locus axon A is equally
closely realted to taxa B, C and D . the
ancestor branch point shared by A bone here a bread
tehre on the trail of human orgins
Who are we and
where did we come from?
ARICAN RELIGION
The presence of the ancestors is
particulary felt in traidtional african
…. Who become deifield after death I whose
presence and infleunce continue to be. Harmonious living is clearly a privatal value deep
memoery theories can we remember our ancesotr lives
A relgion practice based on the belief
that deceased family members have a
continud etistence, lake an interest in the affairs of the world, and possess the abilioty to
influence the fortune of the living.
Worship given to decased relatives who are believed to be closer to the
gods and therefore able to grant favours.
Honouring
ancestors through rituais such as offering good and wine to the dead, belief that
dead ancestors can infleunce ones
fortunes in life. Those who partice
offten conduct rituals and ceremonies to the memory or remains of their ancestors. Honour and reverance paid to ones
deceased relative based on the belief
that their spirits the on and can
influence the gods in ones
favour. Honourty the sprits of the dead. The belief that respeciting
and thing ones ancestors will
cause them to the live on the sprit
world after death, honouring arcestors through ancestors word,
imput and enoguh to infleunce the gods. The chinese called upon the spirits of their
ancestors to be bring good fortune to their analysis chinese believe on
the life after death by worshiping
and mainfasing graves. Plus rituals furing specialise
holy days were all a part of this belief. Ancestors worhsip
ritualized propitiation and onvocation
of dead kin.
Ancestor worship is based on the belief
that the spririts of the dead continue
to dwell in the natural world and have the power to
influence the fortune and fate of
the living . ancestor worhsip has
been found in various
parts of the world and in diverse cultures. It was a minor cult among the promans, the practice reached it highest elaboration in
west africa and in the ancient
chinese
Renaeration of ancestors . It is also well developed in the
Japanese cult and among the perpele of
membanesia. Religious belief or practices that invomve addessing prayers of
foferings the spriits of dead relatives. It existed among the ancient
Greeks, other mediterranean people and the
anceient europeans. It also pays a major role in traidtional african
relgisons. The dead are rleated to
thefmaily caln, tribe or vilalges mythical ancestors may be included. They way
be friendly or they many be displeased and regine profession commemoratine reremonies are some time held at grave a monuments and may includes prayers,
offering, scarifices and festivals of honour. Worship of indivudal ancestors is common, it may be combined with communal forms of worship
as in the case of the roman
emperon cult
An ancestor whose deads are heroic
may artain the status of a god . In
Chaina and Japan ancestor reverence has declined with the dectine in the size and
importance of kinship groups.