Sentences with phrase «ancestral spirits»

It's a folk dance originally designed to welcome ancestral spirits, and it looks kind of like the electric slide, done with fans in a circle.

Previously, this was associated with punishment from ancestral spirits.

In celebration of NAIDOC week, we have put together a special video: Dreaming tracks crisscross Australia tracing the journeys of ancestral spirits as they created the land, animals and lores.

This temple is one of the most important temple in Bali, because it is closely connected with ancestral spirits purification ceremonies or better known as Mount Nyegara ceremony.

While about 90 % identify as Christians, it is still common to honor ancestral spirits in local customs.

There they collected peyote, a hallucinogenic cactus that helps them contact ancestral spirits in the otherworld.

The imagery in this work recalls the Japanese tradition of toro nagashi, a ceremony in which paper lanterns float down a river to guide ancestral spirits back to their resting places on the final night of the summer Obon Festival.

In this case, Kusama was inspired by the tradition of toro nagashi, a ceremony to guide ancestral spirits back to their resting places on the last night of summer by floating paper lanterns down a river.

Dreaming tracks crisscross Australia tracing the journeys of ancestral spirits as they created the land, animals and lores.

The fact that older dogs and wolves were selected could mean they represented ancestral spirits of shamans, he says.

Christianity in their perception offered access to education, continued protection to their land and above all, it appeared to help them to handle ancestral spirits (which were becoming less and less effective in dealing with rapid change).

The team considered two classes of religion: MHGs and a broader belief in systems of supernatural punishment (or «BSP») for social transgressions, such as those enacted through ancestral spirits or inanimate forces such as karma.

The shamans used dried sage plants on their fires as a ritual of calling upon ancestral spirits.

This ceremonial occasion falls exactly 10 days after the Galungan rituals and is a time to commemorate ancestral spirits...

The Obon Season [a three day Japanese festival made to honor ancestral spirits] saw strong sales over last year.

It's in keeping with the Kongo concept of the grave as a site of passage and contact for ancestral spirits.

The invention of new sculptural forms to please ancestral spirits gives vitality to this spectacle - a testament to the remarkable capacity of the young people to respond to the preoccupations of the present.

Perhaps the most striking thing you'll notice is his extensive collection of kachina dolls, figures that represent deified ancestral spirits among the Hopi and other Indian tribes.

Traditional practices and worshipping of ancestral spirits were seen as evil by Christian religions.

For those wondering what the heck is a Kadomatsu: A kadomatsu («gate pine») is a traditional Japanese decoration of the New Year placed in pairs in front of homes to welcome ancestral spirits or kami of the harvest.

As for the black human figures beneath the wavy line, they were ancestral spirits in the underworld, Boyd was convinced.

Ancestral spirits had a prominent role in the belief system.

For example, they construed natural calamities as an expression of wrath of their ancestral spirits if they changed religion.

Every hill was holy land owned by the ancestral spirits.

C. For the third group of 500 sick people, Australian Aboriginals performed traditional ceremonies to their ancestral spirits that their condition would improve.

Traditional beliefs and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) rooted within an ancestral spirit - world however continue to influence the day - to - day lives especially of rural communities.

Together with celebrity hairstylist Vernon François, Nyong» o brought the ancestral spirit of African beauty to the red carpet with a new spin on a traditional Rwandan hairstyle that had all the viewers at home buzzing.

His innocent act of thievery transforms Miguel into a sort of living ghost, capable of interacting with the ancestral spirits that flood into his hometown each Day of the Dead — all styled like calacas, the holiday's trademark fancily dressed skeletons.

There are so many great Black Panther moments, but if I have to choose just one, I'm going with T'Challa's first trip to the ancestral spirit plane, where he talks to his father about the responsibilities of becoming king that weigh on him.

Only sangomas can approach the falls and offer prayers to the ancestral spirits.

The legendary Pu`u Keka`a lava rock formation, on Ka'anapali Beach, is a place where Hawaiians believe the souls of the dead leap from the earth into their ancestral spirit land, and only a person with great spiritual strength can enter that world and return.

The people of Mizuho disliked conflict, honored their ancestral spirits, and lived in harmony with nature.

However, over time, they began cultivating crops, forging and using metal, fighting wars, destroying nature, and neglecting to honor their ancestral spirits.

The diverse indigenous population ties the worship of their ancestral spirits with the elaborate subsistence cycle of planting, transplanting, harvesting, and regeneration.

An nkisi, is an object said to be a miniatured world; a central ritual object that partakes of oral traditions, natural forces, ancestral spirits, divination and the ritual complex of the Bakongo.»