I have seen a tribe of herdsmen in central Asia abandon its ancestral home and start on a zigzag march of a thousand miles because of a great drought.
Therefore young Siegfried left one day his ancestral halls, and wandered southwards along the clear blue river.
Just opposite to his ancestralhall he caused a proud fort to be built, and called it "Liebenstein," intending it for his second son when he returned from the Holy Land.
Among these are the early ancestral exploits, which tend to keep alive love of country.
Theodora, wife of Orkhan, was a Greek Christian woman, and with marked persistence held on to her ancestral religion.
Ruth's deceased husband had rights in the ancestral estate, and the Hebrew law was careful that estates should not pass out of the hands of the original owners, if it were possible to prevent it.
Any nation which honors its ancestry will hold tenaciously to ancestral ideals.
The family ate liberal in their views, and the daughter has been educated at one of the American mission schools, although they still adhere to Hinduism, their ancestral religion.
The fearless Rama will then forsake his uncared for paternal and ancestral realms, and under pretext of his banishment, betake himself to the Dandaka woods of foresters.
The heavenly stream of the Ganges did not till then run over the land, it was Bhagiratha that brought it down, and first washed his ancestral remains with its holy waters.
Only anancestral sin can explain man's universal ignorance and depravity.
It is the seat of the chief temple in India of the Jains, that Hindu sect which claims to have preserved the ancient religion of the Vedas, and to have kept it true to the ancestral faith.
In the hall of the ancestral temple, there was a metal statue of a man with three clasps upon his mouth, and his back covered over with an enjoyable homily on the duty of keeping a watch upon the lips.
If one do not find the door and enter by it, he cannot see the rich ancestral temple with its beauties, nor all the officers in their rich array.
It is the ancestral part that is neglected, and which we have yet to recognise at its just value.
The attitude of mind that I should expect to predominate among those who had undeniable claims to rank as members of an exceptionally gifted race, would be akin to that of the modern possessors of ancestral property or hereditary rank.
It was the funeral procession of Countess Julie von Ingenheim, conveying the corpse to the estate of the family Von Voss, to deposit it in the ancestral vaults.
The limits of the two groups seem to be identical; and members of each group have an ancestral village from which they are supposed to have come.
At a feast before the wedding one of the women beats a copper dish and asks the ancestral spirits to attend, calling them by name.
Israel entertained, however, perhaps by reason of 'nomadic habits,' only the scantiest concern about ancestral ghosts.
The equal Father of all men cannot be 'squared,' and declines (till corrupted by the bad example of ancestral ghosts) to make himself useful to one man rather than to another.
I am unacquainted with any sacrifices to ancestral ghosts among this people who cannot long remember their ancestors, consequently the practice has not been refracted on their supreme Master's cult.
It is plain, in any case, that the religion of the Africans in the Blantyre region has an element not easily to be derived from ancestral spirit-worship, an element not observed by Mr. Spencer.
On that hypothesis, Confucius should now be a god; but of course he is not; his spirit is merely localised in his temple, where the Emperor worships him twice a year as ancestral spirits are worshipped.
As many Blackfeet change their names yearly, ancestral names are not likely to become those of gods.
In place, then, of any remote reference to a chief's being priest of his ancestral ghosts, we have here a man of one tribe who is paid rather handsomely to be family chaplain to a member of another tribe.
Our author says 'when the chief or people sacrifice it is to God,' but he also says that they sacrifice to ancestral spirits.
For among the Zulus many Amatongo (ancestral spirits) are sacred.
The ancestral spirit, to speak quite plainly, can be 'squared' by the people in whom he takes a special interest for family reasons.
This book was prepared at Ferrer's special request, as an antidote to ancestral leanings, inherited superstitions, the various outside influences counteracting the influences of the school.
But the old ancestral spirit of rebellion asserted itself while I was yet fourteen, a schoolgirl at the Convent of Our Lady of Lake Huron, at Sarnia, Ontario.
It was by a great ancestral instinct that he defended Christmas; by that sacred sub-consciousness which is called tradition, which some have called a dead thing, but which is really a thing far more living than the intellect.
The stupid fool is as consistent and as homogeneous as wood; he is as invincible as the ancestral darkness.
Milburn came, and his pride being irritated by the nature of the opposition, he wore to the scene of the combat his ancestral hat.
The ancestralhat defied all worldly hostility, but became the iron helmet to bend its wearer's back.
Let them kill me, but it shall be under myancestral brim.
They wail as they pass through the languishing crops, and thus invoke the aid and pity of some ancestral spirits.
From a later account it appears that the custom is a mode of interceding with the ancestral spirits for rain.
This ceremony was deemed of great importance, being the established way of communicating to the child a portion of the ancestral spirit (itongo) through the physical medium of the father's dirt, to which the spirit naturally adheres.
Early in the morning all the male members of a family assemble at the sanctuary of the particular ancestral ghosts whom they revere.
This tower happened to be the sole remnant of the ancient Zehrenburg, the ancestral seat of Arthur's family, which, in former times, had enjoyed large possessions on the island.
The whole land was pacified, save the ancestral quarrel between Ezzelin and the counts of Campo San Piero, which unpardonable wrongs had rendered implacable.
Pierre, the eldest of these, in 1300, made a claim for the ancestral estates, and Boniface VIII.
At his death, in 1241, he left liberal bequests to the Church, and especially to his ancestral Cistercian Abbey of Bolbonne, in which he died in monkish habit, after duly receiving the sacraments.
It appears that his ancestral gods, worshipped at an altar in his own house, where of first importance.
Boast not ancestral wisdom; each man alone A single bowstring uses, and that his own; What matters it to any the worth that's buried?
To Odin high, where bright stars shine, Ascendeth herancestral line; No hope may son of Thorstein nourish, For like with like alone can flourish.
Fardell, near Ivybridge, was the ancestral home of the Raleighs, but Sir Walter's father settled at Budleigh.
The Commune of Florence, it goes on to say, having secured possession of the site, "built this edifice on the remains of the ancestral house as fresh evidence of the public veneration of the divine poet".
