ancestor worship
C24792
concept
Ancestor worship is a religious or spiritual practice in which people honor, venerate, and maintain relationships with deceased family members, believing they influence the well-being of the living.
Observed surface forms (9)
- ancestral religion ×2
- ancestor veneration ×1
- ancestor veneration rite ×1
- ancestral spirit ×1
- ancestral spirits ×1
- ancestral veneration practice ×1
- ancestral veneration ritual ×1
- household shrine ×1
- mortuary cult ×1
Instances (14)
- Mimi spirits via concept surface "ancestral spirits"
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Namarrkon (Lightning Man)
via concept surface "ancestral spirit"
surface form: Namarrkon
- Ahom religion
- Sanamahism
- Hmong folk religion
- Egungun Festival via concept surface "ancestral veneration ritual"
- Sanamahi Kachin via concept surface "household shrine"
- Marapu culture via concept surface "ancestral religion"
- Niam Khasi via concept surface "ancestral religion"
- Marapu ceremonies via concept surface "ancestral veneration practice"
- Tai folk religion
- Shang ancestral worship via concept surface "ancestor veneration"
- Dziady via concept surface "ancestor veneration rite"
- cult of Osiris at Abydos via concept surface "mortuary cult"