Ancestor worship was present and universally recognized.

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Ancestor worship at a Buddhist temple complex, Mount Emei

Ancestor worship was present in the royal court in pre-colonial Burma.

Ancestor worship is predominant in India among Hindus.

A rubbing of a Han pictorial stone showing an Ancestor worship | ancestral worship hall ( citang 祠堂 )

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The tribes of the Philippines practiced Mohammedan Religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, Ancestor and Nature worship ; part of the motivation of the Spaniards was to convert the natives to the Roman Catholic religion in order to subdue them without a fight.

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Ancestor worship is what distinguishes Qingming Festival from Ghost Festival because the latter includes paying respects to all deceased, including the same and younger generations, while the former only includes older generations.

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Chinese Ancestor worship is a Taoist practice by nature, practiced by a large number of ethnic Chinese in Singapore.

Where Dwarfs shun most magic except for Runic magic ( which is unique to them ) Chaos Dwarfs have embraced it ; where Dwarfs worship their Ancestor Gods, Chaos Dwarfs worship " Hashut, Father of Darkness ".

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" The books mentioned so far are a ' Slumming ' book where players play ven nobles from cities ( as opposed to ' country ' ven detailed in the main book ), a Wilderness book where vassals of the ven nobles fight off ork, explore dungeons, and possibly kill dragons, as well as a Suaven book where details regarding the Ancestor worship religion of the ven will be revealed.

In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, Gallifrey is destroyed as a result of the Eighth Doctor's desire to prevent the voodoo cult Faction Paradox from starting a war between the Time Lords and an unnamed Enemy.

The Ancestor Cell suggests that he is a future version of the Doctor, but this is retconned in The Gallifrey Chronicles, to him being everyone's potential future self.

Ancestor veneration is very prevalent throughout Africa and serves as the basis of many religions.

Ancestor veneration is one of the most unifying aspects of Vietnamese culture, as practically all Vietnamese, regardless of religious affiliation ( Buddhist or Christian ) have an ancestor altar in their home or business.

There is a memorial sign on one of the restaurants on Montmartre that says: On 30 March 1814-here the Cossacks first launched their famous " Bistro " and thus on this summit occurred the worthy Ancestor of our Bistros.

* Fester ( Ness ) Swollen, is Ancestor Goofy's partner, voiced by Michael Gough ).

The Rani is mentioned in BBC Books ' Eighth Doctor Adventure The Ancestor Cell, by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole.

Mazu (, Vietnamese: Ma Tổ ; Foochow Romanized: Mā-cū ; literally " Mother Ancestor "), also spelt Matsu, is the indigenous goddess of the sea who is said to protect fishermen and sailors, and is invoked as the patron deity of all Southern Chinese and East Asian persons.

Coel Hen, whose epithet can be translated as " the Old " or " the Ancestor ", is noted in Welsh legend as a leader in the Hen Ogledd or " Old North ", the Brythonic-speaking parts of southern Scotland and northern England during or after the period of the Roman withdrawal.

But since she is a True Ancestor, she lacks some vampiric qualities, such as that of needing to consume blood to survive, and being nocturnal.

The Ming Dynasty Ancestor Tomb ( Ming Zu Ling ) is located in Xu Yi County ( Xu Yi Xian ), the former Sizhou, of the Huai An Municipality ( Huai An Shi ).

Ancestor is " any person from whom one is descended.

File: 臺南藥王廟正面. JPG | Shennong Temple in Taiwan — where he is worshiped under the names King Yan, God of Five Grains, Shennong the Great Emperor, the Ancestor of Farming, Great Emperor of Medicine, God of Earth, and God of Fields.

In the BBC novel The Ancestor Cell, it is indicated that Grandfather Paradox may be an alternate future form of the Doctor, but this book is explicitly not part of the independent Faction Paradox canon.

The Ngintaka is one of several Creation Ancestor Beings of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Western Desert Speaking Original people of Central Australia.

Pitjantjatjara land is cris-crossed by the tracks of many Creation Ancestor Beings ; the lizard, carpet python, snake, dingo, emu, tjala honey ant and maku witchetty grub, among many others.

Each individual is custodian of the land they are born in and the Creation Ancestor who walked and sung that land into being in the beginning.

In the novel The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin, K-9 Mark II makes another appearance, having been trapped within the TARDIS since the events of The Ancestor Cell.

Regarding D's birth, some Nobles whisper dark rumours about their vampire progenitor, the Sacred Ancestor known as Count Dracula, bedding a human woman called " Mina the Fair " ( perhaps named after Mina Harker ).

* Ancestor: Zhuge Feng ( 諸葛豐 ), served as Director of Retainers during the reign of Emperor Yuan of Han

More recent releases include Blue Indians ( 1999 ), Descendant Now Ancestor ( 2001 ), Bone Days ( 2001 ), Madness and Moremes ( 2007 ) and CRAZIER THAN HELL ( 2010 ).

* Ancestor: Zhuge Feng ( 諸葛豐 ), served as Director of Retainers during the reign of Emperor Yuan of Han

Some attribute the name " Cáodòng " as a union of " Dongshan " and " Caoshan " from one of his Dharma-heirs, Caoshan Benji ; however, the " Cao " much more likely came from Cáoxī ( 曹溪 ), the " mountain-name " of Huineng, the Sixth Ancestor of Chan, as Caoshan was of little importance unlike his contemporary and fellow Dharma-heir, Yunju Daoying.

* THE BUILDERS OF THE NAVY, A GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF PETT by H. Farnham Burke and Oswald Barron, from the public domain Google book The Ancestor ( a magazine ), A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities, edited by Oswald Barron, F. S. A., Number X, July 1904.

Examples include the book The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor by Colin Tudge, and a documentary of the same name screened on the History Channel ( US ) and BBC One ( UK ), both referring to the primate fossil dubbed Ida.

* Ancestor: Liu Jiang ( 劉彊 ), Prince Gong of Donghai, deposed crown prince of Emperor Guangwu

Five basic tenets guide the faith of members: Belief in upholding ma ' at, Belief in Netjer ( the supreme being ), Akhu ( Ancestor ) Veneration, Participation in and Respect for the Community, and Acknowledgment of Siuda as the Nisut.