The strongest most stable States have always been those in which family sentiment has been strong, especially those in which it has been strengthened and supported by the custom of ancestor worship, as in Rome, Japan and China.
Out of this apotheosis of distinguished mortals there grew, in logical sequence, the practice of ancestor worship.
Such a creed grew logically out of the cult of ancestor worship.
Thus, the organization of the State depended primarily on the principle of ancestor worship.
Frequently the steps were cut into the sacred boulders consecrated to ancestor worship.
If so, it would be natural for people who are devoted to ancestor worship to have here worshiped his memory.
Thus, amongst the Jews there {54} was a tendency to ancestor worship, as is shown by the fact of its prohibition.
That is a conclusion to which tribes attain who have apparently gone through no period of ancestor worship,--indeed, ancestor worship only impedes or defers the attainment of that conclusion.
But when speculation is provoked, it proves ultimately fatal to ancestor worship.
Ancestor worship is an important element in the religion of many peoples, and the art which illustrates this naturally varies according to the plane of culture at which a given people have arrived.
Ancestor worship is a characteristic feature of Polynesian religion.
It was quite to be expected that we should find an ancestor worship in the early history of every people.
Sidenote: Superfluity of effort to explain zoolatry by ancestor worship.
Thus a system of pure totemism, such as prevails among the aborigines of Central Australia, might develop through a phase of ancestor worship into a pantheon of the ordinary type.
In the last lecture I described the rites ofancestor worship which in certain parts of Fiji used to be celebrated at the sacred enclosures of stones known as Nangas.
These ideas may be briefly designated as animism, fetishism, and ancestor worship.
Ancestor worship, finally, is the worship in cult of family or tribal ancestors.
Modern taste has removed from sight what were once the common people's symbols of the god-way, that is of ancestor worship.
The gods being nothing more than human founders of families, reverence was paid to them as ancestors, and so the basis of Shint[=o] is ancestor worship.
Thus from the emperor to the humblest believer, the god-way is founded on ancestor worship, and has had grafted upon its ritual system nature worship, even to phallicism.
Consequently, ancestor worship, like the previously mentioned belief in the invisible spiritual world, underlies all other religious developments.
Thus Buddhism has taken over the most important function of ancestor worship, has extended it and made it more significant to each individual as well as to the family.
In the usages of family and community life, ancestor worshiphas a definite place, but an occasional one.
Ancestor worship, being the worship of the departed ancestors as heroes, seems to develop more readily where the line of ancestors are males.
Ancestor Worship as the Basis of the Early Roman Family.
The early Romans shared certain superstitions with many primitive peoples, which, if not the basis of ancestor worship, powerfully reinforced it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ancestor worship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
