Definition and meaning of ancestor:

ancestor - any organism, population, or species from which some other organism, population, or species is descended

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Ancestors. See PITRIS

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ANCESTOR WORSHIP: The belief inherent in some religions, such as Shintoism, that asserts the continued existence of the deceased and the influence that the living descendants have upon their existence. Descendants have an obligation to support their ancestors through their actions and reverence.

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Ancestor Dream Symbols:

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Ancestor, True self, Traditional values, Inner strength, Security, Belonging

Ancestor Worship A cult widely observed among peoples and usually defined as the cult of the spirits of parents and forefathers. It implies belief in the continued existence of the deceased and in certain cases in their power of being interested in and affected by the fortunes of their living descendants; the sense of a perpetual spiritual unity and moral reciprocity in obligations and services; and a dependence of the fortunes of the living on the fulfillment of these obligations.

This can be seen from the ancient Roman ideas portrayed in the Aeneid, where the household gods (lares and penates) are so carefully preserved through all vicissitudes. This belief and practice point to times when death was regarded as merely an event in a continuous life. With the ancient cults, the sense of personal separateness seems merged in the more vivid sense of family unity, from whose privileges and obligations death is no discharge. In fact, theosophy suggests that the reimbodying ego of an ancestor actually takes a body born of its own descendants as a result of the transmigration of life-atoms. Thus what might be called an ancestral blood stream, or a tree with collateral branches, subsists.

The basic idea behind ancestor worship seems to be that its holders envisaged unity in a continuous and never-ending stream of lives, perpetuating itself in succession through the ages, and out of which and back into which individuals arise and sink, an idea in direct contrast to the modern view that the individual is the most important factor in life.

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Definition and meaning of common ancestor:

common ancestor - the most recent ancestral form or species from which two different species evolved

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ANCESTOR WORSHIP: ritualized propitiation and invocation of dead kin, based on the belief that spirits influence the fate of the living. A widespread ancient practice.

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Pitri: A departed ancestor, a forefather.

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manes:

manes. Souls of the ancestors.

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Mannus Ancestor of the German race. {SD 2:774n; BCW 5:219}

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kavya

food ritually offered to the ancestors.

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Ushmapas: A class of ancestors (pitris) which live off subtle emanations or vapors.

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pitri:

pitri (pithri). Forefather, ancestor, manes.

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Khatvanga:

Khatvanga (Khatvaanga). King in the Solar Dynasty; ancestor of Rama.

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Aryama:

Aryama: the demigod in charge of Pitrloka, the planet where qualified departed ancestors reside.

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pinda:

The microcosm. Pindas are small balls of food offered during the shraddha or ancestor ceremony.

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Animalculists Thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries who taught that the all future human offspring were carried in the male reproductive plasm of the earliest human ancestor or ancestors. The animalcule was the tiny human offspring thought to reside already completely formed in each human sperm. (MIE 213)

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Pitar Devata (Sanskrit). The "Father-Gods", the lunar ancestors of mankind.

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Pitaras (Sanskrit). Fathers, Ancestors. The fathers of the human races.

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Shinto (Jap.). The ancient religion of Japan before Buddhism, based upon the worship of spirits and ancestors.

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