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  2. Windows 10, version 1607 - Wikipedia

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    The update has reached end of service on April 10, 2018 in the Semi-Annual Channel. [10] The Enterprise, IoT Enterprise and Education editions have reached end of service on April 9, 2019. [ 11 ] Support of this update for systems based on Intel Clover Trail chipset was available until January 10, 2023.

  3. Indigenous Philippine folk religions - Wikipedia

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    Ghosts or ancestral spirits, in a general Philippine concept, are the spirits of those who have already died. In other words, they are the souls of the dead. They are different from the souls of the living, in which, in many instances, a person has two or more living souls, depending on the ethnic group. [19]

  4. Ancestor veneration in China - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Confucian royal ancestral shrine - Wikipedia

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    The system of 'Confucian royal ancestral shrine' has distinct systematic feature from general concept of 'venerating dead', as the system is not a veneration of dead body in tomb, but a religious worship to spirit tablets of royal ancestors. Also, the system tries to limit the number of ancestors available to become object of worship under ...

  6. Funeral practices and burial customs in the Philippines

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    A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.

  7. Shang ancestral deification - Wikipedia

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    Chen Mengjia saw in the square the connotation of an ancestral altar, which could also extend to "incomplete squares" like the designs found in three Shang predynastic spirits' titles. [9] An alternative speculation claims that the square was an equivalent of the modern "beng" ( 祊 ), depicting fundamentally a gate of an altar / temple and ...

  8. Ancestral shrine - Wikipedia

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    An ancestral shrine, hall or temple (Chinese: 祠 堂; pinyin: Cítáng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sû-tông or Chinese: 宗 祠; pinyin: Zōng Cí; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chong-sû, Vietnamese: Nhà thờ họ; Chữ Hán: 家祠户; Korean: 사당; Hanja: 祠堂), also called lineage temple, is a temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname ...

  9. Pitri - Wikipedia

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    An altar built under a tree for Pitr veneration in Haryana, India. Ancestor veneration is an ancient Indian practice. The custom of a death anniversary is still practised in India, where the deathday of one's parents involves a number of rituals and offerings, that are elaborated in the Puranas. [5]