Sentences with phrase «by ancestors who»

Written by journalist Paul Salopek, it refers to his journey retracing the route taken by ancestors who discovered the Earth 60,000 years ago.

While they happen to be eaten by our ancestors who had to seek out and shellfish must how come no fresh fruit in paleolithic diet be eaten includes most foods -LSB-...]

An argument could be made that the old puritan was too generous, thinking that God had killed his son for a thought crime rather than for a crime committed by ancestors who lived millennia ago.

Not exact matches

DNA - testing companies determine where your genes are from by comparing you to other users who are known to have ancestors from that region.

I'm certain they will be cherished by my ancestors as I've cherished the writing of my loved ones who have passed on.

Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.

Accompanied by a troupe of dancers with gongs, drums, and banners, and by Australian aborigines in paint and loincloths, she invoked ancestor spirits and indicated that the best «image of the Holy Spirit comes from the image of Kwan In... [who] is venerated as Goddess of compassion and wisdom in East Asian women's popular religion.»

Some prefer the answer given thousands of years ago by our distant ancestors who said Atum or El, or Ptah, or Vishvakarman, or Yahweh, etc. created the universe.

Jura Nanuk, founder & President of Central - European Religious Freedom Inst.itute, wrote the minister an open letter in which she stated: «Did it ever occur to you that instead of pretending to be a victim due to your hurt feelings you might show some compassion for people who were taken to the brink of extinction by your ancestors?

But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.

First Things» heroic refusal to countenance a Catholic Shakespeare reminds one of the descendants of an esteemed ancestor who recently has been suspected of siring illegitimate offspring by a slave girl.

A member of African society has a moral responsibility in regards to past generations to venerate the ancestors; a moral responsibility in regards to the present generation to consider the well - being of his / her contemporaries throughout the community; and a moral responsibility in regards to future generations to create conditions which serve the well - being of those who are called «the beautiful ones» by Ayi Kwei Armah in his classical novel — The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.

What type of ancestor do we, who by baptism are part of the communion of saints, hope to be?

But for Native Americans who cleave to rituals passed on by their ancestors, the trial of self - help guru James Arthur Ray mattered.

Is it too much to ask the pope to recall these events with sorrow and to express on behalf of the church sincere repentance to the descendants of those who were so viciously displaced and exiled by our ancestors?

This characterization is further enhanced by the activity of the magician, illegitimate priest as he was, who is commonly recognized to have been in some way ancestor of the modern scientist.

Of her earliest faith we can not safely say more than that it was inherited and uncritically accepted from ancestors who had come, by the ways that have shaped the mind of primitive man, to a relatively high polytheism.

Mormons believe that they may be baptized by proxy for deceased ancestors who never had that opportunity.

There is an important role to be played by those who celebrate the lifestyle of our ancestors who were far closer to nature.

In the play Angels in America, Prior, a character living with AIDS, describes the arrival of his ancestor, a ship captain who made his living by bringing whale oil to the Old World and immigrants to the New World.

Because for almost 13 thousand years this land was dominated and cultivated by native Americans, who took much, much better care of the land than our European ancestors (and us) did.

The U.S. was founded on God's word by our ancestors, but know most of our culture acts like its all crap and were «too cool for religion» in the end when i'm before my Mighty, All - powerful God, after my earthly body has died and rotting I know for sure he'll say to us all who were faithful «Well done my good and faithful servant.»

It is much more probable to imagine generations of Muslims agitated by the same mysteries, moved by the same yearnings, troubled by the same questionings and doubts, and aspiring to the same peace as had generations of their ancestors who lived in the same environment.

«This was reported online by a journalist of a national paper, who described it as being intended to break a curse on her that was handed down by her ancestors, to prevent the curse being passed on to her children.

We applaud those Christians who reject this teaching of contempt, and we do not blame them for the sins committed by their ancestors.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

Steelpan was inspired by the people of Trinidad, who turned discarded steel barrels into drums, creating music that is synonymous with the Caribbean today, just as their ancestors had turned a byproduct of the sugar industry into rum.

In fact, anthropologists now know that for our ancestors, the greatest danger faced by infants was being abandoned to die by a mother who didn't have the resources to care for another child.

It was practiced by some of our earliest ancestors, such as Homo habilis and the even older Australopithecus garhi, who walked on two legs, but whose facial features and brain size were closer to those of apes.

We should be keeping the inheritance of our ancestors,» says the pekaseh who works in a high - end hotel bar by day.

The researchers calculate that the Y chromosomes carried by modern men are versions of the Y chromosome carried by a common ancestor who lived in Africa about 59,000 years ago, they report in the November issue of Nature Genetics.

«If these [new] dates are correct, they must be from a human population that was largely replaced by the people who are the primary ancestors of today's Australians and New Guineans,» he says.

But there's building concern among geneticists and others that the tests performed, both by companies and in academic labs, may not be very accurate, largely because they match samples to «reference» populations of a particular ancestor who may or may not perfectly fit the desired profile.

It's also clear how this mild region, sheltered by mountains from the cold steppes to the north and from arid plains to the south, would have appealed to a band of human ancestors who may well have been the first to venture out of Africa nearly 2 million years ago.

It was practiced by some of our earliest ancestors, such as Homo habilis and the even olderAustralopithecus garhi, who walked on two legs, but whose facial features and brain size were closer to those of apes.

The theory that all humans are descended from a recent African ancestor was promoted by geneticists who study living populations.The fossil record provides independent support for this model

For much of human history, our ancestors were hunter - gatherers, mostly nomadic people who lived by hunting, fishing and harvesting wild food.

«These kinds of events scared the hair off» of our ancestors, who thought the moon was wounded, on fire, or being eaten by a dragon, Alan MacRobert, senior editor of Sky & Telescope Magazine, tells Newsweek.

Paleoanthropologists have disagreed about how they relate to other human groups, some positing they were ancestors of both modern humans and Neanderthals, others that they were a nonancestral species replaced by the Neanderthals, who spread across Europe.

These are the five main goals of anyone who goes on the paleo diet, which must be achieved by eating like our ancient ancestors.

The accrual of body fat, when food was plenty in the summer, rendered our ancestors [and today's contemporaries who still carry the (epi) genetic architecture that predisposes them] insulin resistant, which facilitated survival in the winter by hampering the uptake of scarce carbohydrates in peripheral tissues, thereby leaving these carbohydrates for combustion by the brain.

Even when your ancestors were not Irish, you may want / have to wear emerald that day just because there is a great Irish community in your town; you are invited by your friends who have Irish ancestor / are Irish or celebrate everything; someone at the office is throwing an Irish coffee break — you name it.

Studi is a magnificent presence, as always, but he's stuck in the role of the noble Native American who, by befriending a white soldier, implicitly lets European ancestors off the hook for their legacy of atrocity.

Miguel meets up with his deceased ancestors and with Héctor (Gael García Bernal), a sly con man who tries to sneak past the screeners by dressing up like Frida Kahlo.

This dark, brooding ancestor to Hang»Em High features Buck Jones as a happy - go - lucky cowpoke who is duped by a gang of rustlers into «guarding» their camp.

Along the way, Miguel is helped by a suave but lonely charlatan calaca named Hector (a warm Gael García Bernal) and hindered by the spirits of his own ancestors, who want the best for Miguel but still aren't too keen about the whole music thing.

Viewers are meant to mourn him as T'Challa does when he dies, invoking his ancestors who chose to be consumed by The Void rather than toil in bondage.

They were also created by shortsighted ancestors who believed that human personality was the root of a «warring world,» instead of «political ideology, religious belief, race or nationalism,» as Ms. Roth puts it in the first book.

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Leading out of the shorts, the fest debuts the Slamdance Audience Award winner for 2014, «Copenhagen» by Mark Raso, an excellent drama that features a breakthrough performance from Fredrikke Dahl Hansen as a 14 - year - old who happens to fall in love with a much older, boorish American tourist trying to find an ancestor in the titular city.