WHO ARE WE AND WHERE DO HUMANS COME FROM? - AFRICAN ANCESTRAL RELIGION


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?
AFRICAN 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 continued 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  specialize  holy days were all a part of this belief. Ancestors worship ritualized   propitiation and on vocation 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.
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