Ancestor-worship
idea · 2 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Manes-worship · ancestor-worship · the worship of ancestors · the worship of the dead · ʻibādat al-salaf · عبادة السلف
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The worship of remembered ancestors, the central concept examined across the passage.
Modern investigators who have made it their special business to search for the earliest forms of mental conceptions among the present ideas of savages have based a theory of the origin of ancestor-worship upon the phenomena of sleep and unconsciousness as they present themselves to men not yet escaped, or barely escaped, from savagery.
This is the Worship of Ancestors, which has shaped the entire Hindu law of Inheritance.
The ritual of ancestor-worship given in the book of Vishnu begins with sacrifice to the gods (lxxiv.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The veneration of forebears, whose accepted origin and developmental stages Zaydan says the totemic doctrine cannot be squared with.
Moreover, the doctrine of totemism runs counter to many of the established principles of civilisation which induction and observation confirm — such as the accepted account of the origin of the worship of ancestors and the worship of the heavenly bodies, and of the stages by which man advanced in each of them.