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Meanings of ancestral spirits in English

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Usage of ancestral spirits in English
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They will find a way to keep the ancestral spirits alive.
Ecological intelligence: rediscovering ourselves in nature (easy...
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Every man should prepare his soul for his journey to his ancestral spirits.
Foundation
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Roman term to describe ancestral spirits who remained in the home and taunted its inhabitants.
A Wiccan Bible
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A few examples of invocations of the ancestral spirits may not be out of place.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Data were obtained via semistructured interviews with MLHs and via contacts with ancestral spirits through soothsayers.
Pubmed
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Acceptance of the novices by the ancestral spirits.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 ...
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Sacrifice of first-fruits to ancestral spirits in Tanna.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 ...
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Especially the belief in ancestral spirits may check or nullify the belief in a remote All Father.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
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In the pitris or fathers he recognises ancestral spirits, now companions of the gods, and gods themselves.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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The intention of the initiatory rites seems to be to introduce the young men to the ancestral spirits.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 ...
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This argument appears to take for granted that the conception of primal ancestral spirits, perpetually reincarnated, is primitive.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
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Generally speaking, Roman term to describe ancestral spirits who remained in the home to protect it and its inhabitants.
A Wiccan Bible
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Findings nonetheless show that some ancestral spirits want small families, some even wanting fewer children than corresponding lineage heads.
Pubmed
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I'm sure someone did it long before I was born, maybe pitting the ancestral spirits of one tribe against those of another.
Ghost Story
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Participants and observers alike conjure the ancestral spirits of West Africa grooving to the beat of goatskin drums, cowbells and brass horns.
Ebony
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This is the Arunta belief, and I must reckon it as not more primitive than the peculiar philosophy of reincarnation of ancestral spirits.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
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