Ancestral Veneration
9 books featuring this theme
Ancestral veneration consists of offerings, rites, and remembrance directed to forebears. It integrates family, land, and authority by positioning ancestors as mediators between human and divine orders.
Classic of Poetry
Anonymous
400-200 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Norito
Anonymous
927 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Samguk Sagi
Kim Busik
1145 CE
East Asian, Korean
Engishiki
Fujiwara no Tadahira
927-967 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Garuda Purana
Anonymous
800-1000 CE
Indian, Hindu
The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians
Franz Boas
1898 CE
Native American, Nuxalk
Latvian Dainas
Anonymous
1894-1915 CE
Slavic, Latvian
Codex Bodley
Anonymous
1500 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Kanuri Cosmology
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
African, Kanuri