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In China, ancestor veneration (敬祖, pinyin: jìngzǔ) and ancestor worship (拜祖, pinyin: bàizǔ) seek to honour and recollect the actions of the deceased; they represent the ultimate homage to the dead. The importance of paying respect to parents (and elders) lies with the fact that all physical bodily aspects of one's being were created ...
The ancient Greek hero cult was also a funerary cult; in the original sense, a hero was a deified or semi-divine ancestor, worshiped at a shrine for his power to assist the living. The ancient Greek religion had three main aspects: the Gods, the heroes, and the dead.
Chinese ancestor veneration, also called Chinese ancestor worship, [1] [a] is an aspect of the Chinese traditional religion which revolves around the ritual celebration of the deified ancestors and tutelary deities of people with the same surname organised into lineage societies in ancestral shrines. Ancestors, their ghosts, or spirits, and ...
The Binou (or Binou cult [1]) is a Dogon totemic, religious order and secret ceremonial practice which venerates the immortal ancestors. [2] It can also mean a water serpent or protector of a family or clan in Dogon. [3] It is one of the four tenets of Dogon religion—an African spirituality among the Dogon people of Mali.
The Shang nature cult also recognized the mountain god Yue (岳), and He (河), a god representing the Yellow River. [51] [52] These two were sometimes called 'high ancestors', and were also the subjects of an ancestor cult – making the distinction between nature and ancestor spirits for the Shang less clear. [53] [54]
Tai folk religion originated in Yunnan province of China [4] and is primarily based on ancestor veneration. [5] This cult of ancestor worship was borrowed from Confucianism. [6] It is a syncretic mixture Buddhist and Tai folk practices with local traditional beliefs in mainland Southeast Asia.
Wyatt recalled a time when vendors were moving records by Ya Ho Wah 13, Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76 and other Family-related recordings for $20 or less because the Source had fallen out of ...
Yu the Great. In another example, it is claimed that the Xia king Zhong Kang presented great virtues of Yu the Great and his successors: "Ah! ye, all my men, there are the well−counselled instructions of the sage (founder of our dynasty [i.e. Yu the Great], clearly verified in their power to give stability and security.The former kings all were carefully attentive to the warnings of Heaven