Those names are remembrances of the being's origins in an ancestral cult.

The family name of William of Orange was derived from the dynasty's ancestral origins as feudal lords of the French town of Orange, which was named by the ancient Gauls in honour of a Celtic water deity.

There are a number of differing accounts given, by outsiders, of Aboriginal ancestral stories for the origins of Uluru and its many cracks and fissures.

Arab Americans, and Arabs in general, comprise a highly diverse amalgam of groups with differing ancestral origins, religious backgrounds and historic identities.

His father is Puerto Rican, whose ancestral origins descend from Asturias, Spain, and his mother is of Italian and Irish descent.

The differences between the two groups are due to their separate ancestral origins.

Anglo-Celtic Australian are citizens of Australia with British and / or Irish ancestral origins.

Since European settlement of Australia in 1788, people of Anglo-Celtic ancestral origins have comprised the majority of the Australian population.

While the " Mongol Xianbei " ( or " Mengwu Shiwei ") emerged from the northern Manchuria and northeastern Mongolia, the Khitans, or " Qidan " in Chinese, derived their ancestral origins from the Yuwen Xianbei in southern Mongolia, who had earlier founded the Western Wei ( 535-556 ) and Northern Zhou ( 557-581 ) of the Northern Dynasties.

A huge jackfruit tree trunk, tumbled down by nature itself, represents the return to one ’ s origins and acts as a historical and cultural reference to honor the ancestral fathers and mothers of Pataxó families who recently moved into this 8. 27 km² Indian protection area.

* The Bardic tradition of the Bisclavret may be a holdout of their ancestral origins, but those capable of performing mystical tunes can affect the minds of those who hear them.

The term was coined by some to emphasize the European cultural and geographical ancestral origins of Americans in the same way that is done for African Americans and Asian Americans.

This view is in agreement with Irish historians such T. F. O ' Rahilly and Francis John Byrne ; the early chapters of their respective books, Early Irish history and mythology ( reprinted 2004 ) and Irish Kings and High-Kings ( 3rd revised edition, 2001 ), deal in depth with the origins and status of many Irish ancestral deities.

The term " Palestinian " used to refer to Jews in Europe who were regarded as an alien presence, usually as reference to their ancestral origins in the Levant.

Although there is still much debate about the origins of lemurs on Madagascar, it is generally accepted that a single rafting event, similar to the one that brought New World monkeys to South America, occurred around 50 – 80 million years ago and allowed ancestral lemurs to cross the Mozambique Channel and colonize the island, which had already split from Africa ( while it was joined to the Indian subcontinent ), approximately 160 million years ago.

Many ancient Andean peoples traced their origins to ancestral deities.

Multiple ayllus could share similar ancestral origins.

As a result, some Latin Americans don't take their nationality as an ethnicity, but identify themselves with both their nationality and their ancestral origins.

Cradley Heath has two large municipal parks, Haden Hill Park, which contains Haden Hall and Haden Old Hall ( the latter with Tudor origins ) which was the ancestral home of the Haden family and the Mary McArthur Memorial Gardens ( known locally as Lomie Town park ).

Some Chinese Singaporeans also tend to associate according to their clans and ancestral origins, as seen in the Singapore Chinese Clan Associations.

Genetic research into the ancestral origins of extant citrus cultivars matched the bergamot as a likely hybrid of Citrus limetta and Citrus aurantium.

Commonly, even city dwellers proudly mark their rural origins by wearing such a costume, from their ancestral landscape, at weddings, visits with members of the royal family, Constitution Day ( May 17 ), and other ceremonial occasions.

If your family has an uninterrupted bloodline, and no one decided to change their name by deed poll or similar, then you can be reasonably certain that anyone with the surname Maxey ( or close derivative, i. e. Maxcy ) has their ancestral origins in the village / environs of Maxey.

Early markings from this period found on pottery and shells are thought to be ancestral to modern Chinese characters.

One of the main lineages fled from the Kong ancestral home in Qufu during the Chinese Civil War in the 1940s, and eventually settled in Taiwan.

However, his ancestral home, a concept important in Chinese society, was the town of Heqiao ( 和橋鎮 ) in Yixing, Wuxi, Jiangsu ( approximately southwest of downtown Wuxi, and from the shores of Lake Tai ).

Many faiths around the world — from Japanese Shinto and Chinese traditional religion, to certain African practices and the faiths derived from those in the Caribbean, to Native American beliefs — hold that ancestral or household spirits offer daily protection and blessings.

Chinese 祖国 ( simplified Chinese ), 祖國 ( traditional Chinese ) ( pinyin: zǔguó ) literally means " ancestral land " and not necessarily " motherland " or " fatherland.

After visiting his ancestral home in Suzhou, Pei created a design based on the simple but nuanced techniques of traditional residential Chinese buildings.

A significant distinguishing feature of Vietnamese ancestor veneration is that women have traditionally been allowed to participate and co-officiate ancestral rites, unlike in Chinese Confucian doctrine, which allows only male descendants to perform such rites.

It has been documented that the tribe that founded the dynasty was the Huaxia, who were the ancestral people of the Han Chinese.

* Shrines of the traditional Chinese Ethnic Shenism are called miao, or ancestral hall in English.

The major deities of Daoism and Buddhism, ancestral spirits and the many deities of Chinese folk religion were worshiped with sacrificial offerings.

Chen's ancestral home was in Anqing ( 安慶 ), Anhui, where he established the influential vernacular Chinese periodical La Jeunesse.

Xiamen and the surrounding southern Fujian countryside are the ancestral home to large communities of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

*** Lee Teng-hui 李登辉 ( 1923 -; ancestral Yongding, Fujian ; born in Sanzhi, New Taipei, Taiwan ), President of the Republic of China, 1988 – 2000 ; First freely elected president in Chinese history

** Lo Ta-yu 羅大佑 / 罗大佑 ( 1954 -; ancestral Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Miaoli, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Lo Tai Rhiu ), Influential singer-songwriter who revolutionized Chinese pop and rock music in the 1980s

** Chen Chien-Chou 陳建洲 / 陈建洲 ( Blackie 黑人 ) ( 1977 -; ancestral Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Chin Kian Zhiu ), Compere ; Former national basketball player, Chinese Taipei national basketball team

In Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other areas in Southeast Asia, Min Nan is known as Hokkien, in addition to the Teochew variant, originating in the Chaoshan region, which is the ancestral home of many ethnic Chinese in Singapore as well as in Bangkok, Thailand ( see Thai Chinese for more information about the Chinese community in Thailand ).

Chinese writings on human evolution in 1950 generally considered evidence insufficient to determine whether Peking Man was ancestral to modern humans.

* shi ( 氏 ), a Chinese clan name previously distinguished from ancestral or family names ; see Chinese surname # Origin of Chinese surnames

Ancient Chinese beer was important in ancestral worship, funeral and other rituals of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the beer was called as Lao Li ( 醪醴 in oracle bone script ).