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ancestor worship

collocation in English

meanings of ancestorand worship


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ancestor
noun[C]
uk /ˈæn.ses.tər/ us /ˈæn.ses.tɚ/
a person related to you who lived a long ...
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worship
noun
uk /ˈwɜː.ʃɪp/ us /ˈwɝː.ʃɪp/
the act of worshipping God or a god, often through praying ...
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Examples of ancestor worship


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He situated them in the context of ancestorworship ceremonies and the veneration of the idol embodying the atmospheric phenomena of lightning, rain, and wind.
On the surface the ceremony appears to be a rite of ancestorworship.
These differences, which were created by rights to land, people, and ritual power, were validated by divine sanction, ancestorworship, and a strong aristocratic principle.
Ancestorworship was important, and elite ancestors were interred in sacred places.
In addition, the "theater" or composite ceramic censers often feature clay masks as the most prominent element, indicating that these may be related to ancestorworship.
For example his references to 'ancestorworship' might benefit from more detailed justification and explanation: is he drawing here on ethnographic material to suggest this interpretation?
Its practitioners may also be accused of ancestorworship and nostalgia, the heroics of rescuing victims, or at least an undertheorized humanist individualism and naive representationalism.
Highly stylized crafts associated with ancestorworship disappear.
One of my noble friends spoke earlier about ancestorworship.
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That is not ancestorworship; it is ancestor admiration, and it is not all that bad.
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It was the exact reverse of ancestorworship.
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I am not bowled over by ancestorworship.
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Some locals affiliate with no religion, but still choose to practice traditional rituals like ancestorworship.
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Traditionally the shrine serves for ancestorworship of the eight emperors.
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Gothic paganism was thus a purely tribal religion, in which polytheism and ancestorworship were one and the same.
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Ancestorworship was rarely practiced while female-centered shamanistic rites were widespread.
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